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HP Weathers Industry Change And Drives Hard Into Midrange Markets

The Eye Of The Storm

Most attendees expected this year’s
INTEREX HP Users Conference to be
a steamy one—given New Orleans’
reputation for muggy August heat, the
bayou city was hardly an optimal
choice for a summer conference—but
no one was quite prepared to sweat out
a hurricane.

In fact, if that ominous wind hadn’t
kicked up, this year’s conference might

By Don Marks

. have been as placid as last year’s love
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fest by the San Diego bay.

For HP 3000 users, certainly, there was no shortage of posi-
tive vibrations. HP selected the newest HP 3000 system, the
high-end Model 987, as the first vehicle for the latest incarna-
tion of PA-RISC—the superscalar, 96Mhz 7100 chip. And, just
when I thought it was safe to start whining again about the
demise of MPE, HP delivered both a read/write SQL interface
for TurboIMAGE and NetWare for MPE/ix.

More important than these technical Eurekas, however,
was a notable marketing breakthrough on the part of HP’s
normally-reticent Commercial Systems Division. Glenn Osaka,
marketing manager for the HP 3000, came to New Orleans
prepared to declare war. His target: IBM’s $16 billion-a-year AS/
400 business.

The plan, Osaka says, is to position the HP 3000 as a com-
plete, turnkey alternative to Big Blue’s midrange offering. HP
promises to do all the handholding IBM routinely does for its
cautious, job-conscious installed base — for about one-third the
price. Says Osaka: “If we can siphon off 10 percent of that mar-
ket per year, that’s over three billion dollars. We'll be satisfied.”

On the UNIX multiuser front, the big news in New Or-
leans was on the exhibit floor. Computer Associates, Legent,
Lawson, Uniface and Ross HP, to name a few, all swept in from
other platforms to offer a host (or, pardon me, a server) of com-
mercial applications for the open systems crowd.

HP’s mid-September delivery of 7100-based UNIX servers
(we received the news at press time) only verified what has long
been suspected in these pages: HP-UX actually is hotter than
August in New Orleans.

The new high-end HP 9000 887 and 897 offer industry lead-
ing single-processor performance. The 897 delivers client-server
mode transaction processing at an incredible 184/tps for an

equally unbelievable $10,737 per tps. Prices for the 887 and 897
are $92,000 and $112,000 respectively.

Winds Of Change
Meanwhile, outgoing HP CEO and President John Young bid
the INTEREX organization farewell in a speech that looked back
on his successful tenure at the helm — and forward to a de-
cade of intense, accelerated change driven by RISC technol-
ogy. Young also introduced new CEO and President Lew Platt,
who promised to maintain HP’s commitment to quality and sup-
port as the company plunges into competitive hardware mar-
kets characterized by low margins and commodity pricing.

Before fleeing Andrew’s wrath, I had the opportunity to in-
terview Mr. Platt. Talk about a whirlwind. In the course of
our brief conversation, I learned that his plans for HP include a
headlong push into network services and systems integration,
increased leverage of the company’s computer and instrumen-
tation businesses and a renewed emphasis on decreasing time-
to-market for new technologies — all strategies designed to raise
margins rather than simply increase volume.

Make no mistake, this company is prepared to survive the

coming storm.
Lin Wark

An Enterprise Perspective

Starting this month, HP Professional adopts a new tag line for
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This may be it:
the true reality.
The HP/Lotus
Development
Corp. deal to move four big-time DOS
applications onto HP-UX could be the fi-
nal piece that takes HP’s version of UNIX
out of Guru-land and places it solidly
amongst real people who use real com-
puters, drive real cars and drink real beer.

We aren’t talking about moving just
one application onto HP-UX, as was
done with Lotus 1-2-3 last year. Nor are
we talking about some low-life DOS
emulation window that brings the power
of your UNIX system to its knees by
forcing it to act stupid. We aren’t even
talking about using off-brand office au-
tomation applications from Also-ran
Software Inc.

No ma’am. We are talking about the
very same applications from Lotus De-
velopment Corp., Cambridge, MA, that
run on millions of DOS PCs worldwide.
HP and Lotus reportedly will have them
on HP-UX by early next year. This will
be in addition to Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus
Realtime, which have been available on
HP-UX for more than year. The new ad-
ditions to the HP-UX family will include:

Ami Pro: A word processor that in-
cludes capabilities for charting, drawing,
file management, macros, merges and
tables.

Freelance Graphics: A presentation
graphics product with templates, draw-
ing, outlining and charting features.

Lotus Notes: A groupware comput-
ing environment that facilitates informa-

tion-sharing over networks.
Lotus cc:Mail: A widely used LAN-

based electronic mail system that will be
integrated with HP OpenMail.

Sitting Pretty

“This is great news!” says Peter Vescuso,
commercial market development man-
ager for HP’s Workstation Business Unit.
“Here you can have a lot of what you
liked about a PC with all the advantages
of a workstation. This is an important
announcement for users and MIS
people.”

Those of you using
HP-UX get the first crack
at these Lotus products

outside the DOS

environment.

Advantages of moving Lotus applica-
tions onto HP-UX include the pluses of
native UNIX applications, such as:

@ Networked applications capability.

@ Floating license technology to reduce
licensing costs.

m Native UNIX performance as opposed
to emulated DOS performance.

“If you compare performance of these
products on our workstations to their
performance on a 386-based PC, there is
a 5X difference,” says Vescuso.

But HP’s excitement goes beyond just
getting some top-drawer office-type ap-
plications onto HP-UX. These are some
of the applications that are particularly
important in the commercial market-
place, the fastest-growing segment of the
UNIX market, and the portion where HP
is working hardest to ensure success.

HP-UX Attains Office Software Nirvana With Complete Lotus Product Suite

Full Lotus Position

Users asked for it, says Vescuso. “We
had a lot of customers come to us and
say that it is important to them to know
that these applications will be there.”

Lotus has a similar response when you
ask them why they chose to port these
applications to HP-UX first. Lotus ported
to HP, “Because we are getting a lot of
demand for HP,” says Lotus spokesman
Bryan Simmons. “It is a matter of what
is in demand and what is easiest to do
next. We can’t do it all at once.” And
HP may be “easier” for Lotus because of
the work the two firms have been do-
ing together. Work like the HP palmtop
with Lotus 1-2-3 built-in. Lotus also
gains access to a block of customers who
are more likely to be spending money
during this protracted recession than cus-
tomers of other computer vendors.

But Lotus is not about to ignore other
computer platforms. “We are gradually
moving toward providing our suite of
applications on all the key platforms,”
says Simmons. “We have committed to
delivering the full suite on UNIX, OS/2,
and we continue to spread onto the
Macintosh (with 1-2-3 most recently).”
Ever-popular 1-2-3 is also available for
Sun workstations, and the other Lotus
products will be moved over to Sun, as
well as to IBM systems.

For the moment, however, those of
you using HP-UX get the first crack at
these Lotus products outside the DOS en-
vironment. First out early next year will
be Ami Pro, the word processing prod-
uct. The rest of the suite will appear over
the course of a few months after the in-
troduction of Ami Pro. ©

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HP’s INTEREX Announcements
Overshadowed By Hurricane Andrew

HP 3000 987 Blows Away AS/400; Portable
NetWare Takes MPE/iX By Storm

ins ewlett-Packard planned
to jazz up this year’s 18th
annual INTEREX Users Con-
ference in New Orleans with
its usual show-stopping flurry
of new PA-RISC systems,
product line enhancements
and statements of future di-
rection. Unfortunately, this
year, Hurricane Andrew stole
the show.

As hundreds of conference
attendees and exhibitors
scrambled to flee the impend-
ing storm, HP rolled out a
new HP 3000, portable
NetWare for MPE/iX, an
SQL interface for TurboIM—
AGE and more to somewhat
soggy fanfare. The company
also announced new plans for
its venerable electronic-mes-
saging system HP Desk, and
a new integrated worldwide
support program designed to
service all HP customers.

A Fresh Blast

Although no match for Hur-
ricane Andrew, HP hopes the
latest blast of power from PA-
RISC will enable the HP 3000
to blow the doors off IBM’s
successful AS/400 line. A new
system announced in New

Orleans, the HP 3000 Series
987, marks the first imple-
mentation of the PA-RISC
7100 microprocessor — a
superscalar version of the ar-
chitecture that can process
several instructions simulta-
neously, eliminating the need
for multiple processors at
midrange performance levels.

The 987, which makes use
of the compact, integrated
packaging HP introduced last
year with the “Nova” sys-
tems, expands the growth
path for users of the HP 3000
9x7 series by offering an ad-
ditional high-end option. Of-
ficial TPC-A benchmark tests
for the 987 are not complete,

but HP estimates the new
system will outperform the
current high-end, the HP
3000 Series 977, by 30 per-
cent. The Series 977 had been
benchmarked at 111.1 trans-
actions per second (tps) at a
cost of $9,853 per tps, mak-
ing it — until now — the
fasted single-processor com-
puter in the industry.

With the introduction of
the Series 987, HP has clearly
fixed its sights on IBM
midrange accounts. Accord-
ing to Pat Adamiak, product
line manager for the HP 3000,
the 987 provides performance
levels comparable to the top
of IBM’s AS/400 line at a
much lower overall cost-of-
ownership. “Three-year cost-

of-ownership for the AS/400

E90 (the model closest to the
987 in performance) is over
one million dollars more than
that of the 987.”

The Series 987, including
CPU, memory, disk, tape
backup, MPE/iX operating
system, TurboIMAGE and
ALLBASE/SQL databases, a
console and a 100-user license
is priced at only $320,000.
(The AS/400 E90 is priced at
over one million dollars.) The
cost to upgrade to the Series
987 from the Series 977 is
$85,000, and board upgrades
from other 9x7 series systems
are available for less than one-
third the cost of a new sys-
tem. Shipment of the Series
987 began in September.

Glenn Osaka, product
marketing manager for HP’s
Commercial Systems Divi-
sion, claims that “‘in sales situ-
ations where the HP 3000
competes with the AS/400,
HP wins four out of five
times.” According to Osaka,
HP’s goal in the coming year
is to position the HP 3000 ef-
fectively as part of integrated,
preconfigured, turn-key solu-
tions.

“With the AS/400, IBM is
perceived to be offering one-
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the same, with better perfor-
mance at a better price,” said
Osaka. He noted, however,
that at present IBM faces no
competition whatsoever in 80
percent of its AS/400 sales.

NetWare Hits MPE/iX

As part of an unfolding strat-
egy for Novell NetWare sup-
port, HP also introduced
NetWare/1X—high-perfor-
mance portable netware for
the HP 3000’s POSIX-com-
pliant MPE/iX operating sys-
tem.
According to Rich Sevcik,
general manager of the
company’s new Systems and
Servers Group, NetWare/iX
enters the market as the in-
dustry leader for NetWare
server performance. Test re-
sults using PC Magazine’s
LAN Benchmark show that
NetWare/iX running on an
entry level HP 3000 917LX
outperformed all tested PC-
based NetWare servers, when
supporting networks of 40 or
more users.

“Our NetWare/iX perfor-
mance results prove today
that the HP 3000 provides the
most powerful NetWare solu-
tion on the market,” said
Sevcik. “What we have here
is the Ferrari of NetWare
server performance.” .

Given the high cost of
NetWare/ix,
Sevcik’s Ferrari analogy may

however,

carry an unintended double
meaning. NetWare/1X will be
available in October at prices
ranging from $5,900 to
$31,000, depending on net-
work size. With the added
cost of an HP 3000—base
price for the 917LX is
$14,500—NetWare/iX would
be one of the most expensive

NetWare solutions on the
market — almost as costly as
a Ferrari. Also, portable Net—
Ware offers only file and print
server functionality and does
not support other features of
NetWare 3.1, such as Net—
‘Ware Loadable Modules.

When asked about the
price competitiveness of a
NetWare/iX solution, Sevcik
conceded that the product
was most suitable for existing
HP 3000 users who sought
high-performance PC inte-
gration. At present, he said,
the company has no plans to
position the HP 3000 and
NetWare/1X as a competitor
to low-cost PC NetWare
servers.

Sevcik did, however, hold
out the possibility that a low-
cost PA-RISC-based native
NetWare server, capable of
delivering even higher levels
of performance, would be
available by late 1993. This
new server, said Sevcik,
which would be neither an
HP 3000 or HP 9000, would
compete head-on and in the
same price range with PC

servers like the Compaq
SystemPro.

TurbolIMAGE

Hangs Tough

Hurricane Andrew also ob-
scured the most significant
news for TurboIMAGE users
since the stormy Boston con-
ference of 1990. Despite in-
clement weather outside, the
outlook for TurboIMAGE
users inside the convention
center was pretty rosy.

In a technology break-
through that evidently sty-
mied other industry vendors,
HP has managed to develop
the first SQL write interface
for a non-relational database.
HP SQL for IMAGE now
provides HP TurboIMAGE
with a read/write SQL inter-
face, which allows tools and
applications that today sup-
port only ALLBASE/SQL to
support TurboIMAGE data-
bases as well. Also, HP SQL
for IMAGE, will enable tools
and applications that make
use of Microsoft’s ODBC cli-
ent-server database interface
to access TurboIMAGE.

HP SQL for IMAGE is
scheduled for delivery in the
first half of 1993; it will be
packaged as a separate prod-
uct with future releases of
MPE/ix. Pricing information
will be announced this No-
vember.

HP also highlighted sev-
eral TurboIMAGE enhance-
ments introduced earlier this
year with the release of
MPE/iX 4.0. First among
these was the long-awaited
critical item update capability,
which allows search and sort
items in detail datasets to be
directly updated, making
changes easier and more effi-
cient to perform. Other ma-
jor enhancements included
tighter integration between
IMAGE and third-party in-
dexing software, including
DISC’s Omnidex and Brad—
mark’s Superdex, and in-
creased MPE/ix file size limits
(from 2 GB to 4 GB).

The Message Is Open
The future also looks clear for
another HP 3000 standby,
HP DeskManager. HP an-
nounced what it’s calling the
OpenDesk initiative which is
designed to transform the
venerable electronic messag-
ing system into an “open, cli-
ent-server, enterprisewide
messaging backbone.”

According to Sevcik, the
first goal of the OpenDesk
initiative will be to imple-
ment “a clients-of-choice
strategy” that will allow users
to access HP Desk from a va-
riety of client front-ends, in-
cluding Microsoft Windows,
the Apple Macintosh, HP
NewWave and Motif-based
workstation systems.

Future objectives for the

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OpenDesk initiative include
implementation of X.400
software, which would allow
users of HP DeskManager to
access any X.400-compliant
E-mail system, and the adop-
tion of other communications
standards.

Emergency Service

As Andrew downed power
lines, communications links
and business systems through-
out southern Louisiana, HP’s
Roger Costa, general man-
ager of the System Support
Division, announced his plan
to deliver more effective

The new program, du-
bbed HP System Support,
simplifies service choices and
provides customers with per-
sonalized support options.
Encompassing hardware, soft-
ware and network mainte-
nance services, HP System
Support allows customers to
put together a single stream-
lined service program rather
than maintain multiple service
contracts for many different
systems.

According to Costa, the
personalized support program
will provide each customer
with a “specified support

worldwide support.

For Your Information

@ WRQ announced a technology license agreement with
HP that will allow WRQ to offer more functionality for
HP 3000 computer system connectivity. (206) 324-0350.

@ PeopleSoft Inc. announced an agreement that provides
ADP with rights to incorporate PeopleSoft HP/Payroll/
Benefits software into value-added ADP service and soft-
ware offerings. (510) 946-9460.

m Lawson Software announced that its Lawson Account-
ing System won International Computer Programs’ $50
Million Dollar Award. Lawson’s Fixed Assets package won
a $10 Million Dollar Award. Lawson UNIVERSE Produc-
tivity Products and UNIVERSE/CASE won $5 Million Dol-
lar and $1 Million Dollar Awards, respectively. Lawson also
opened a new sales office. For more information about its
product line, contact Lawson Associates, 26911 Northwest-
ern Hwy., Suite 300, Southfield, MI 48034; (313) 262-1471.
m@ Workstation Source offers a new range of equipment
from ISA of Japan, the ISA Model 1000 Series, that is de-
signed to fill the gap of the discontinued HP-IB floppy
drives and small Winchester disks. (0628) 75252.

m HP announced plans to make available emulation soft-
ware that will let users of HP’s PA-RISC-based worksta-
tions run Macintosh application software without
modification.

m Cincom Systems announced a newly formed technology
partnership with Independent Computer Consulting Ser-
vices Inc (ICCS). ICCS is the new owner of the HP ver-
sion of MCBA’s “CLASSIC” application software. (513)
662-2300.

team,” consisting of a local

field engineer and an HP Re-
sponse Center engineer. To-
gether these two will
maintain a detailed under-
standing of the customer’s
business systems and mainte-
nance plans in order to pro-
vide a faster, more efficient
response.

HP System Support will
be made available to custom-
ers as their current support
contracts come up for re-
newal over the next year.
Prices are based on support
needs.

The Grand Finale

Last but not least, HP
rounded out the INTEREX
news deluge with two printer
announcements.

First, the production-ca-
pacity HP 5000 F100, which
was announced at last year’s
INTEREX conference in San
Diego and is now in full pro-
duction shipment, was dem-
onstrated at the HP booth.
The 100 page per minute, 300
by 300 dots-per-inch printer
supports the HP PCL printer
control language (of HP
LaserJet fame) and can pro-
duce up to 2.8 million letter-
quality pages per month. Cost
is $175,000. Second, HP also
introduced a low-cost HP
2300-840L line printer capable
of printing 840 lines per
minute. Price for the HP 2300
840L is $12,340. — Don
Marks, Managing Editor

Computer Technology

Aids

Pharmaceutical Research

HP And Molecular Systems Combine Efforts In
Computer-Aided Molecular Design

I" an effort to expand its in-
volvement in advanced
computer-aided molecular
design (CAMD) systems, HP
has joined with Molecular
Design Simulations (MSI) to
develop business opportuni-
ties in the pharmaceutical and
chemical industries.

MSI has agreed to port its
suite of software applications
to HP’s PA-RISC-based 700
Series workstation family to
provide scientists with new
open-system solutions for 3-
D molecular modeling and
visualization.

MSI products include:

m AVS ChemistryViewer, a 3-
D visualization environment
that allows researchers to dis-

play and manipulate the re-
sults of quantum chemistry
programs.
m@ CERIUS, a family of prod-
ucts for research and develop-
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@ POLARIS, modeling soft-
ware for working with simu-
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program with over 12 mod-
ules for molecular graphics,
construction and simulation
of small and large protein and
polynomer molecule systems.
Scientists in fields such as
protein chemistry, molecular
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material research will benefit.

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Network Etiquette

Quest
Printer Gateway

Quest Software

Shows That Your
Network’s Social
Code No Longer

Stands On Protocol

In today’s economy, your
personnel and equipment re-
sources are valuable assets
you can’t afford to waste.
Transferring files to a dedi-
cated printer used by only a
few nodes on your network
is hardly efficient. And the
last thing you need to hear is
that you need six new print-
ers to accommodate various
network platforms.

NBSpool from Quest
Software Inc. offers bidirec-
tional gateway capability that
efficiently employs your net-
work resources by permitting
any HP 3000, HP 9000 or any
UNIX system to share print-
ers attached to a Novell
Netware or LAN Manager
PC network, or an IBM host.

The gateway, which
doesn’t require NetWare or
LAN Manager software run-
ning on the host, converts
TCP/IP to the protocol used
by the PC LAN, allowing you
transparent access to any
printer queue on the net-
work.

Through MPE-like com-
mands you can alter, archive,
banner, copy, duplicate,
merge, move, purge, store,
show or view subsets of out-
put spool files. In addition,
you can alter, copy, merge,
show, stream and view input
jobs.

The PC configuration in-
cludes a PC with a ThinLAN
or StarLAN card. The soft-
ware required for a NetWare
gateway includes HP’s NS 2.1
for NetWare or LAN Work—
Place’ for..DOS, -Quest’s
NBSpool’s Printer Gateway
software and MS-DOS. An
HP 3000 host, for example,
requires HP ThinLAN XL or
V, Network Links and
NBSpool software.

NBSpool’s bidirectional
function lets you print from
a NetWare PC to a host sys-
tem printer through the gate-
way PC. You only manage
one PC, which is convenient
and economical during client
system upgrades. Using one
PC as the gateway eliminates
the need to run captures on
every PC on the network.

Quest’s customers have
found NBSpool quite flexible
thus far.

Paul Smith, network ser-
vices manager for Trimble
Navigation, a manufacturer
of Global Positioning Satel-
lite (GPS) transmitters and re-
ceivers, explains that Trimble
needed an economical way
to access to more than 100
printers worldwide. The
company considered direct
leased lines to each of its
sites; including Texas, New
Zealand and the UK; but this
meant installing a DTC in

each location to handle only
two or three printers; as well
as purchasing the appropriate
printers.

“We wanted to use our
existing Infolan connection
to access the UK and Texas,”
says Smith. “And Quest’s
NBSpool let us do that, with-
out leasing new lines or buy-
ing DTCs and printers.”

Smith says that Quest’s
NBSpool gateway allows
them to print directly to
printers that produce custom
reports, rather than bar paper.

Smith maintains, “NBSpool
does the job. I can do a real—
time Quiz report and print
the document to any local
printer.” Trimble currently
prints to 55 devices via
NBSpool on a regular basis.

Pricing for NBSpool
Printer Gateway software
ranges from $3,500 for Micro
3000/917LX to $5,500 for Se-
ries 68/70/932/935/947/
947LX, up to $8,000 for the
Series 980/300, with annual
support from $560 to $1,280.

According to Smith,
Trimble management be-
lieves that making reports
readily available has greatly
enhanced their value. “The
reports are no longer data,
they are information.” —
Charlie Simpson, Technical
Editor

Quest Software
610 Newport Center Dr.
Suite 890

Newport Beach, CA 92660
Tel: (714) 720-1434
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As in many companies across
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For us, recycling applica-
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CAPdesigner. Complete
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Seattle’s Effective Frogs

WRQ’s Successful Leap Into Terminal

Emulation May Be A Springboard

To Success In Client-Server Computing

“We are strongest in
heterogeneous networks
of HP, DEC and IBM
computers, with end-user
environments for DOS,
Macintosh and Windows
systems.”

George Hubman

President Of Sales
And Marketing

Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc.

Effective business manage-
ment is rather like being
a good frog. Success requires
patient, careful observation
and well-timed, vigorous
action.

George Hubman, presi-
dent of sales and marketing
for Walker Richer & Quinn,
Inc. (Seattle, WA), never
mentioned effective frog
techniques to me. I just sense
that he and others at WRQ
understand them.

Why else would four fel-
lows have known the right
time to launch their own
contract programming firm
for HP 3000 systems?

How else would they
have known to market the
one-of-a-kind terminal emu-
lator they wrote for a client’s
billing system, resulting in
the market-leading Reflec-
tion series of emulator prod-
ucts for HP, DEC, IBM and
UNIX hosts?

How else would they
have known to sit quietly
while other companies over-
extended themselves in the
intoxicating 1980s?

Talking about the success
of Reflection 1 in 1985,
Hubman laughs, “I think it

surprised everybody. There
was nothing out there like it.
IBM came out with the PC as
a defensive measure to keep
Apple from taking too much
business, and IBM did not
expect the PC to be success-
ful in the corporate market.”

When IBM’s estimate
turned out to be gloriously
inaccurate, and PCs needed
links to host computers,
WRQ had the product. “We
had the market to ourselves.
We focussed rightly on the
manager of the HP 3000 and
viewed Reflection as an HP
3000 product, not a PC prod-
uct, and it captured the lion’s
share of that market.”

The market was and is
medium and large company
users Communicating with
large host systems from HP,
DEC, IBM and UNIX systems
generally. “We are not chas-
ing the guy who wants to
dial into Compuserve from
home, although you can do
that, too,” says Hubman.
“We are strongest in hetero-
geneous networks of HP,
DEC and IBM computers,
with end-user environments
for DOS, Macintosh and
Windows systems.”

In the near future,
Hubman says WRQ will add:
@ 3270 emulation, to enter a
market that has attracted
quite a bit of attention, and
sales.

m@ X-windows server, to get
in on the early stages of a
market Hubman says will be
“astronomical” in size.

m@ Transportable computer
products, with an entry to al-
low HP 95LX systems to
communicate with host

computers from remote loca-
tions to check on E-mail and
manage scheduling, appoint-
ments and use: Reflection.

Part of the reason why
WRQ works well is an infor-
mal organization and high
productivity. “We tend to
hire six months after we need
a person instead of six
months before, unlike some
of our competitors,” he
teases. And while at times
that may create some stress
among employees, says
Hubman, “I go down the
hall telling people, ‘Hey, chill
out. This is terminal emula-
tion, not a cancer cure!’”

Challenges face WRQ
during the remainder of the
90s. Hubman freely admits
that people have been fore-
telling the demise of termi-
nal emulation for several
years. And although the
company stubbornly persists
in growing at a steady 30 per-
cent, he knows the world is
moving toward client-server
systems. Look for WRQ to
make moves into that mar-
ket. Like the effective frog
that it is, WRQ will wait for
the right fly to come by —
and then take it. —Bill Sharp,
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The Distributed Transaction Processing
Reference Model doesn’t do justice to the
complexity of either the architecture or
the implementation of distributed OLTP.

and networkability, HP-UX is in an excellent position to capi-
talize on the downsizing trend.

Figure 1 shows the simplified model used by the X/Open
consortium to describe its Distributed Transaction Processing
Reference Model.

At the application level, application programming interfaces
(APIs) are provided to supply the syntax and semantics for pro-
grammers to group database operations into transactions. This
is the need for atomicity and is fundamental to the whole con-
cept of OLTP. Client-server function shipping — the division
of labor between the client and server pieces of the application
— is also found at this layer.

Transaction processing requests are communicated to a
Transaction Manager (TM) using a standard Application-to-
Transaction Manager protocol. The TM — sometimes called a
transaction processing monitor — acts as an intermediary be-
tween applications and the data they are trying to access. In
this role, the TM translates application requests into a form that
the data resource manager can understand, sequences concur-
rent application requests, and coordinates the distributed two-
phase commit process.

Figure 1: X/Open’s simplified model of a
distributed OLTP architecture.

At their simplest, resource managers are nothing more than
the database managers and record file systems you would ex-
pect to find. The TM works with these through another stan-
dard protocol, known as XA, to coordinate database activities,
or may provide proprietary hooks to its own, or other, DBMSs.

In theory, components within any of the three tiers of the
model should be interchangeable and interoperable. Accord-
ingly, applications could be either client-server or host-based,
and able to talk to different vendor’s monitors using APTM. In
turn, all those monitors should be able to work with different
Resource Managers over XA, and any application should be able
to work with any relational database using structured query lan-
guage. Fat chance.

The Standard Mudslinging

IMPLE AND AESTHETICALLY PLEASING, this model

just doesn’t do justice to the complexity of either the ar-

chitecture or the implementation of distributed OLTP.
Although an OLTP system that looks something like the model
could be created, practical considerations make that goal little
more than wishful thinking. One look at the architectural dia-
grams provided by vendors of OLTP systems shows they have
only superficial similarities to the X/Open model.

Starting at the bottom of the pile, things don’t look too bad.
The XA specification is in pretty good shape, and RDBMS ven-
dors Informix, Ingres, Oracle and Sybase have all trotted out
XA-compatible databases. Assuming that these recently an-
nounced products will operate as advertised, we can at least rest
easy knowing that we can enjoy some degree of database
interoperability.

Moving upstream, problems start to become more apparent.
One flaw in the model, if you want to call it that, is X/Open’s
implicit assumption that there is a standard network (ISO/OSI)
gluing this model together. The lack of explicit standards for a
remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism, distributed naming
service, security mechanisms and the countless other minutiae
needed to get dissimilar machines to communicate reliably is a
real obstacle.

Another problem is the lack of a fleshed-out APTM proto-
col. In OLTP implementations to date, this lack has caused the
Application and Transaction Manager layers to be fused into
proprietary blobs. Without APTM, Transaction monitors are
neither interchangeable nor interoperable. Applications, imple-
mented on proprietary application-to-monitor protocols can’t
use different monitors, and monitors don’t know how to deal
with each other as peers.

Last, but not least, is the issue of what to do with our
“legacy” systems, which basically means all those IBM main-
frames and their CICS-based applications that won’t die. Rather
than make its offerings XA-compliant, IBM is busily working
on making its own LU6.2/Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communi-

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Economics aside, before it can earn its OLTP stripes, HP-UX< still
has to pass the acid test, which in this case is actually the ACID
test. Any OLTP system worthy of the name has to exhibit the four
ACID properties:

m= Atomicity — Related database operations are grouped into
transactions. All of the operations within a transaction must
complete successfully, or the entire transaction is rolled back as
though nothing had ever happened. This ensures that related
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a Consistency — Application programs have to be constrained so
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accessing the database should be assured of getting data that is
accurate and up-to-date.

m Isolation — An OLTP system has to properly sequence
concurrent database updates and then process them serially so that
the transactions don’t step on each other.

a Durability — Once a transaction is finalized, it should stay that
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cations protocol and Common Programming Interface - Com-
munications (CPI-C) API into ISO and X/Open standards.

The upshot is that OLTP systems have to shoehorn the LU6.2
protocol and SNA into their architectures if they want to
interoperate with IBM’s big hummers. At the very least, ven-
dors have to support the CPI-C API. CPI-C itself can be fairly
easily implemented atop another RPC system and communi-
cations stack, but getting transaction monitors to work effec-
tively with CICS is another story.

A Three-Way Race

we'll be seeing a standard OLTP platform. That said, let’s
look at some of the UNIX-based contenders to see what
kind of compromises we have to make.

AT&T’s Tuxedo is presently the predominant UNIX OLTP
system on the market. Tuxedo is available in versions for the
following platforms:

AT&T Star Server, NCR 3000, IBM RS/6000 AIX, Sun
SPARC SunOS, DG Aviion, DECSystem 5000/5100/5500
ULTRIX, HP 9000/800 HP-UX, Pyramid UNIX SVR4, Unisys
U Series, Unix System V and Sequent Dynix.

With its adherence to the XA standard, Tuxedo can work

| N THE SHORT RUN, at least, there isn’t much chance that

with any XA-compliant database. On the downside, Tuxedo
does not support two-phase commit under LU6.2, limiting its
usefulness with CICS.

Tuxedo supports DOS and OS/2 clients using AT&T’s pro-
prietary APIs and CPI-C. AT&T has pledged future support for
UNIX and Windows workstations.

Although Tuxedo ostensibly enjoys a two-year head-start
on the market, its future is somewhat obscure. Notably, the
merger of AT&T and NCR resulted in NCR’s Top End be-
coming the joined companies’ strategic transaction manager.
Evidently, AT&T was impressed with Top End’s performance.

Tuxedo is also based on UNIX International’s Atlas com-
munications architecture, instead of the Open Software
Foundations’s Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The
latter wasn’t much of a problem until X/Open backed DCE as
its communications architecture in August of this year. Now,
the lack of strategic commitment by AT&T coupled with the
need to make Tuxedo DCE-compliant to meet X/Open specs
could put a bullet in Tuxedo’s skull. Other nascent standards
have expired from less trauma.

Top End is also a question. Until recently, it was available
only for the NCR 3000. But in May systems integrator and
OLTP consulting services provider, Independence Technolo-
gies, Inc., announced that it would port Top End to several
other UNIX platforms including HP-UX. According to Jeff
Stern, vice president of marketing at Independence, interest in
Top End has been strong since the announcement, particularly
among customers that have a mix of NCR and HP systems.

“Customers who have NCR 3000 installations obviously have
an interest in Top End, but also new customers who want to
take advantage of the networking capabilities available in Sys-

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Independence also did the port of Tuxedo for HP platforms and
plans to offer Transarc Encina when it becomes available.

Earlier this year, Transarc, the OSF member responsible for
the Andrew File System and reference ports of the DCE for
IBM AIX and SunOS, announced Encina, its own DCE-based
OLTP system. HP has officially endorsed Transarc’s Encina as
its preferred distributed OLTP solution for both the HP-UX and
MPE/iX platforms. HP 3000 users, however, were advised to
stick with MPE’s internal transaction monitoring capabilities in
situations where open systems are not de riguer.

Encina client support is limited to workstations running DCE,
which effectively blocks the use of personal computers as work-
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This could pose interesting problems for HP 3000 users, over
65 percent of which use PC front-ends.

Forty-nine percent owned by IBM, Transarc is unique in
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None Of The Above?

O HERE WE SIT with three OLTP systems: one that may

be headed for oblivion, one that’s tied directly to a pro-

prietary vendor solution and one that’s still vaporware.
It’s enough to make you want to skip the whole deal.

If you need to handle distributed databases, but don’t need
the distributed two-phase commit capability, you may be able
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to handle your problem.

Oracle even claims that its Oracle 7 RDBMS has a hetero-
geneous two-phase commit capability, and can update Oracle
and non-Oracle databases simultaneously without the use of an
external transaction monitor. At this writing, Oracle didn’t have
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with HP’s Commercial Systems Division, client-server comput-
ing is a strong trend taking place in the financial software mar-
ketplace. He notes several vendors in the HP arena who are
currently overhauling and will soon offer new versions of their
products to accommodate client-server environments.

Vendors include: Computer Associates International Inc.
(Garden City, NY); Collier-Jackson (Tampa, FL); Cyborg Sys-
tems Inc. (Chicago, IL); Dun & Bradstreet Software (Atlanta,
GA); Lawson Associates Inc. (Minneapolis, MN); PeopleSoft Inc.
(Walnut Creek, CA); Ross Systems Inc. (Redwood City, CA),
SAP America (Lester, PA), Smith, Dennis And Gaylord (Santa
Clara, CA), Speedware Corp. (Mississauga, Ontario).

Further, notes Gritsch, vendors are focusing their attention
on HP’s 9000 platform as well as the 3000. “Most software is

Do you find that your Windows screen is too cluttered to find the
window you are looking for? The tremendous upsurge in client-
server applications using PC front-ends has people doing more
windowing and multitasking than ever — there’s barely room on the
monitor for all those icons. Even if you use a Super VGA with 1024
pixels across the screen, accessing business servers and running your
standard PC applications can make managing your desktop a little
overwhelming.

If this sounds like a problem you have, then HP’s newest personal
computer software, Dashboard for Windows, might be what you
need. Dashboard, introduced just this month, features a number of
handy utilities including multiple full-screen “views” of your
applications. Dashboard also includes push-button launching of your
favorite applications; a clock with alarms and a “snooze bar”; push
button access to select which printer you want; and a system resource
“gas gauge,” which warns you when your resources are low and lets
you see which applications are using those resources.

The multiple screen views let you run a number of programs, each
maximized, in three, five, or seven different “pages.” Dashboard,
even as an icon, is visible in each view, and you can switch views with
the click of the mouse. Even when it is minimized as an icon,
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portable and available on both platforms where previously pack-
ages might have been available on the HP 3000 only,” he says.

And, whereas in the past many vendors in the financial soft-
ware marketplace focused their applications on a single propri-
etary platform, for example, IBM Corp. or Digital Equipment
Corp., there has been a shift in the marketplace to open sys-
tems and some established vendors have taken note.

Companies such as Dun & Bradstreet, Lawson, Oracle Corp.
(Redwood Shores, CA) and Ross HP, significant players in the
financial software market have ported their products to the
HP-UX platform over the past few years.

Traditionally a vendor of IBM solutions, Lawson began to
offer open systems solutions about two years ago. “Changes in
the marketplace required that open systems become part of our

You can define buttons to launch your favorite applications, and
still have access to your Program Manager groups. When you want
to change printers, you don’t need Windows Control Panel: simply
click on the printer you want to use on the Dashboard panel.

The clock isn’t just another pretty face on your desktop, either.
Dashboard’s clock lets you define alarms and either run an appli-
cation or beep you when the alarm sounds. It features a ‘snooze bar’
like the one you probably use at home every morning: it lets you
acknowledge the alarm and go back to work for a while before the
alarm will signal again.

For people who use several large programs, the Resource Gauge
can bea great tool. Its analog display and digital ‘odometer’ show how
much memory you have left, and you can set alarms to signal you
when you are running low.

You can also save layouts with Dashboard, so that the programs
you want are opened in the appropriate screens automatically. This
can be helpful when more than one person shares a PC, since each
person can store their own Dashboard layout.

Dashboard is completely independent of New Wave or other HP
software. It runs on Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and features a suggested list
price of $99, although the street price will probably be much lower.
It should be in your favorite computer store now. — Miles B. Kehoe,
PC/UNIX Editor

HP’s Dashboard for Windows offers a variety of desktop
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toward client-server computing.

business strategy,” says Ann Claridge, director of marketing for
cross industry products. “Organizations are becoming more glo-
bal, people are looking to protect their investments and are seek-
ing a more cost effective solution,” she notes.

Eric Treatt, director of program services at Wesson, Taylor,
Wells, a software consultancy based in Columbia, SC, reports
that many businesses are wrestling with several issues that are
driving the need for open systems computing.

He points out that not only has it become more important
for companies to incorporate other types of information into
financial applications but companies are striving for enterprise-
wide data sharing as well.

Client-server computing, Treatt notes, takes on a different
spin depending on who is doing the talking. “From our per-
spective, openness does not mandate the employment of UNIX,
however, the commercial direction seems to be moving that
way,” he says.

What client-server computing does imply, however, is com-
pliance with the international Open Systems Interconnection
(OSI) model, and the POSIX standard for interoperability. Stan-
dards like these enable software portability, the scalability of
open architectures, the seamless availability of information.

However, Treatt notes that today, true client-server com-
puting is elusive because of a lack of universal concurrence on
standards. For example, OSI has not been widely adopted in
the U.S., and although basic connectivity services are provided
by a de facto standard, TCP/IP, the application layer is still
up for grabs.

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66 SERS SHOULD PERCEIVE client-server claims
with caution,” he says. Treatt suggests that users
see what standards vendors are adhering to and

what the vendors understanding of openness is and then look

at their own computing environment and see how a particular
application fits in.

HP’s Gnitsch reports that today client-server applications of-
fer anything from simply providing a graphical user interface
(GUI) to more robust functionality, such as being able to run
parts of the application on the client or the server.

More than 24 vendors, including HP, offer financial software
packages for HP’s 3000 and/or 9000 line of computers.

Introduced in 1990, HP’s Financial Management software tar-
gets HP 3000 users in the manufacturing market, according to
Debora Sobottka, product manager. The product was enhanced
in late 1991 to focus on the needs of the international business
community including features such as currency evaluation, for-
eign languages and localized country requirements.

While HP has no current plans to release a client-server ver-
sion of its Financial Management software product, Sobottka
says that the company is investigating a move in that direction.

Lawson now offers its Accounting System for HP 9000 Se-
ries 800 systems. Integrated application packages include gen-
eral ledger, with optional modules for ratio analysis, cost
allocations, flexible budgeting and financial report writing;
accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets and project
accounting.

Claridge, notes that the company is facing three trends in
the financial software market: globalization, rightsizing, and the
shift toward client-server computing.

Today, notes Claridge, all that users expect of client-server
computing is the ability to run the software in a Windows en-
vironment. “More sophisticated requirements just aren’t there
yet,” she adds.

However, her company is working on a full-fledged client-
server version of its software. Lawson financial products today
work with both the Oracle and Informix relational database.
The company plans to move to other databases as well, says
Claridge.

Lawson will reportedly make its financial software available
to HP3000 users Q1 793.

Oracle Financials Release 9.0 are presently available to both
HP 3000 and 9000 users. According to George Coch, senior vice
president of applications, the latest version follows tough qual-
ity assurance testing to combat previous product flaws.

In July, the company announced the Oracle Business Man-
ager to provide a cooperative processing GUI to Oracle Appli-
cations under Microsoft Windows. Coch contends that Oracle
offers users a client-server architecture allowing them to choose
the computing environment that best meets their needs.

Multiview Corp. (Burlington, MA), a leveraged-buyout of
Cognos Corp.’s financial software business, offers its family of

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One of the most adventurous of new financial accounting

applications is an imaging-—based financial management system

from Computron Feéchnologies Corp.

business solutions on the HP 3000. John Leslie, senior vice
president of operations ‘says the company plans to move to a
client-server architecture by year-end 1993. As promised
last year, Cognos released Powerhouse 7.0 which allows
Multiview to migrate to a client-server environment. Power-
house 7.0 currently delivers full Microsoft Windows function-
ality on the PC.

Computer Associates will make its first foray into the HP
market with Masterpiece Release 3.0 for the HP 9000 by Q1
"93, according to Kurt Seibert, vice president. Previously serv-
ing the IBM and DEC marketplace, CA recognized the user
demands and moved to HP-UX. “We go where the industry
goes,” says Seibert.

In keeping with market trends, Masterpiece Release 3.0 of-
fers users international support such as currency conversion and
language translation. The company also offers value-added ap-
plications such as MasterStation, which provides LAN-based cli-

HP MARKET ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL SOFTWARE VENDORS

Lawson Associates

ent-server, Cooperative processing; MasterEDI for users inter-
ested in electronic data interchange; and, MasterVision for mul-
tidimensional modeling and analysis.

ASK Computer Systems (Mountain View, CA) currently of-
fers MANMAN, a manufacturing business management system
on the HP’s 3000. According to Diane Belknap, HP product
line manager at ASK, the company plans to introduce
MANMAN/X, a new version the company’s product on the
9000 in October 1992, and a year later on the HP 3000.
MANMAN/X includes relational database technology, 4GLs,
UNIX and POSIX compliance, says Belknap. Expect to see
client-server products roll out over the next three to five
years, she adds.

One of the most adventurous of new financial accounting
applications is an imaging-based financial management system
from Computron Technologies Corp. Using Computron’s
multiplatform N-Dimensions Technology, digital images of all

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paper-based documentation are integrated into general ledger,
accounts payable and receivable, and fixed asset modules. N-
Dimensions is available now on the HP 9000 and may make
the move to the 3000 next year.

Long-time HP 3000 ISV MCBA (Glendale, CA) now offers
its Classic Accounting Software on the HP 9000. Last year,
MCBA’s product was able to talk to data residing on an Informix
database. In March of this year, MCBA gave users the capabil-
ity to talk to an Oracle relational database as well. In June 1992,
MCBA released Resolution, a product line that includes the
company’s financials, written in Oracle’s SQL-Forms Version
3.0 for the HP 9000.

By year end, another 3000 veteran Mitchell Humphrey &
Co. (St. Louis, MO) plans to release its Financial Management
software on the HP 9000. Ken Benvenuto, senior vice presi-
dent of operations says that a key market trend is making the
software more intuitive to use. To this end, the company is
working on its next generation of product.

Meanwhile, Mitchell Humphrey introduced two client-
server-based tools this year. One product is a PC-based report
writer that can communicate with the HP 3000. The second
product allows information to be uploaded and downloaded
from the PC to the 3000.

Financial management software from Sotas International

(Haverhill, MA) is available for both HP 3000 and 9000 users.
Arthur J. King, marketing director says that the company is
keeping an eye on client-server computing but has not made a
commitment to move in that direction.

In addition to being available on the HP 3000, Collier-
Jackson’s World Class Series software appeared on the 9000 in
September.

While the move to an open systems environment is new for
the company, the product itself will remain the same, Warren
Fletcher, general manager, says. “What will be new is the look
and feel, the software will be more self-guiding,” he adds.

Collier-Jackson has made client-server versions of its Hu-
man Resource and Payroll modules available. However, the
company has not set an introduction date for similarly func-
tioned accounting software, although it is reportedly working
on its next generation of product.

Ross will make it’s financials available to HP 3000 and 9000
users by Q1 ’93. About the same time expect to see client-
server-based financial software from Dun & Bradstreet and SAP
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Fault-tolerance (FT) is simple in concept. Computer design-
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their computer systems up 24 hours a day,” says AJ. Berkeley,
vice president of marketing for Sequoia Systems Inc. (Marlboro,
MA). “Our business is a good example. We have support people
on the phone in shifts, with one team in the U.K., then later
another in the U.S. takes over, and then [one in] Australia. But
there is one computer system running at all times that holds
the support information; 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Naturally, the computer described by Berkeley is a Sequoia
FT system. It isn’t allowed to go down, even for upgrades,
because the risk to Sequoia’s customers would be intolerable.
“If you have a system that fails once every two years, we say

that is not good enough anymore in a service-based economy,”
adds Berkeley.

A Worthwhile Investment

NOTHER FACTOR THAT DRIVES users toward fault

tolerance is the need for more complex computing sys-

tems. Performance gains these days are going at the
high end to multiprocessor systems, and systems with larger,
more complex memory and lots of links to other systems. This
complexity creates more possible failure mechanisms. As Ber-
keley points out, the more parts there are in the system,
the greater the likelihood that one of them will fail — and
the stronger the argument for FT design to protect users from
these failures.

These pressures force more users to look seriously at fault-
tolerant systems as a smart investment. Raanan Peleg, business
development manager for HP’s Series 1200 FT systems, quotes
estimates from market research firm Infocorp that 1991 fault-
tolerant sales totalled $2 billion, and will reach $2.8 billion by
1995. Proprietary systems still account for the vast majority of
current fault-tolerant sales ($1.9 billion for 1991). However,
Infocorp projects proprietary FT growth at 10 percent per year,
while UNIX FT growth will steam ahead at 40 percent per year.
HP’s target is a 25 percent share of the telecommunications FT
business, the fastest-growing market segment.

[ Stratus SHoppinc Spree Enns At HP ]

Cranes jut high in the sky in Hudson, MA, hoisting
girders for construction of a manufacturing plant for
systems based on the new Alpha architecture from
Digital Equipment Corp. From their windows in the
new building, DEC employees will be able to gaze
across the street at Stratus Computer Inc., where
engineers will be hard at work preparing to ship new
fault-tolerant systems based on rival PA-RISC chip
designs from HP.

The Stratus decision to move to HP technology for

future fault-tolerant systems comes after a protracted
window-shopping spree that included examinations of offerings
from all the leading chip vendors. Although Stratus has been using
Motorola chips for some time and recently announced new systems
based on the Intel I860-XT RISC chip, it has formally announced
its intention to move to PA-RISC.

“We think that in the mid-90s there will be several good chips,
but HP will be leading the pack,” says Jim Holley, director of systems
products for Stratus. Holley conceded that Stratus examined designs
from other leading vendors, including those mentioned above, as

well as MIPS, Sun Microsystems (SPARC), IBM
(POWER) and DEC (Alpha). He noted that Stratus
has its own models for what it needs in future chip
designs, and examined cache size as well as technologies
including superscalar and superpiplining in making its
decision.

He noted that replacing Intel chips with HP
designs in future Stratus models would likely require
no more than a board swap. “Source code will remain
compatible with the previous models and require only
a recompile to make the change.”

It isa measure of the optimism HP, Sequoia and Stratus feel about
the fault-tolerant market that they feel secure in basing their competing
product lines on the same chip designs. All three are convinced there
will be enough growth in the offering to satisfy their combined
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You have to wonder just what kind of silicon Stratus saw to bring
on such a shift. PA-RISC chips planned by HP for the mid-90s must
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Historically, the benefits of FT technology have come at a
considerable price premium. “Four to five years ago the pre-
mium was 400 to 500 percent,” says Peleg. “UNIX market com-
petition has pushed that down. Now we see a 50 to 100 percent
premium at the low end, about a 50 percent premium in the
midrange, and in high-end systems where components are al-

ready redundant, the price difference is virtually a wash.”

P’s Place In the Market

NTIL THIS SUMMER, HP competed only in the
| midrange and high-end portions of the FT market,
conceding the low-end to other vendors. Until mid-
June, HP offered two fault-tolerant models the 1240 and 1245,
both made by Sequoia and sold by HP under an OEM agree-
ment. The 1240 sells for $410,000 and up, and the Model 1245
sells for $570,000 and up. With the introduction of the Model
1210, also produced by Sequoia, HP for the moment has seized
the low-end price point for FT systems.
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Hardware fault detection with software-based recovery are
both implemented in the 1210. The system is based on Motorola
25 MHz 68040 processors for two-way or four-way multipro-
cessing. The system supports up to 192 MB of shadowed
memory, mirrored disks up to 52 GB and up to 900 users.

HP cites the closest competing products as the Tandem In-
tegrity Model 300, DEC FT models and Stratus XA/R Model
20, noting that the 1210 outperforms them both in nearly ev-
ery category, at a lower price.

The 1210 was developed cooperatively by Sequoia working
in tandem (no pun intended) with Samsung Electronics Co.
(Seoul, South Korea), which co-designed and manufactures the
system. Alert readers will recall that Samsung also has separate
cooperative agreements with HP for PA-RISC system develop-
ment.

One market where Sequoia is too small to get much atten-
tion is telecommunications, into which HP sells increasing num-
bers of computer systems. Sequoia granted HP exclusive rights
to sell into this market, which is in fact the target for HP’s in-
troduction of the 1210.

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Outside of the telecommunications market, HP and Sequoia
are teaming up to market the HP 1200 family for medical ap-
plications, where HP’s medical divisions already have a sizable
presence. Sequoia recently announced FT systems for the Mas-
sachusetts Utility MultiProgramming System (MUMPS) inte-
grated programming language and database management system
desired by the healthcare industry. HP and Sequoia foresee sig-
nificant demand for FT systems in patient records systems, a
market in which HP is already active.

Other markets for which HP sees growing FT demand in-
clude financial services, railroad tracking, airline reservations,
air traffic control, and local government emergency 911 systems.

For large numbers of commercial systems, both Sequoia and
HP report that FT capability will increasingly become not only
a costly add-on that is nice to have, but an expected part of
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the 1200 line.

HP’s Peleg says HP has plenty of input, and the next design
for the line will be aimed at meeting telecommunications needs
for central office switching applications. “It will meet Bellcore
requirements for placement next to switches, resistance to tem-
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fault services,” he says.

Future Sequoia/HP systems will include PA-RISC chips to
improve performance, although just how soon this change will
take place is unclear. However, the advantage to Sequoia of
using these chips is clear to its competitors, who are respond-
ing. Stratus Computer Inc. recently announced that even as it
was about to unveil its latest FT model based on Intel chips, it
has decided to develop future designs based on PA-RISC. These
models are expected to debut in late 1994 or early 1995.

In one way or another, HP is destined to be a major player
in the fault-tolerant computer business, and may soon be con-
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your airline reservations — not to mention the balancing of your
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included.

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disks. Because QEMM-386 provides the

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removed HIMEM.SYS from our
CONFIG:SYS file before beginning the
installation. QEMM-386 and Manifest
files are installed first, followed by the
DESQview/xX files.

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Optimize scans CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT files to determine
which TSRs and device drivers can be
moved into high memory from conven-
tional memory. This maximizes the
amount of memory available to run DOS
programs.

To use resources of other systems on
the network and allow machines to use
the resources on- the DESQview/X PC,
we identified the name of the PC. Be-
cause the PC rests on top of PC/TCP, we
assigned the same unique system name
when configuring both packages. We
also included the name in the host’s file
on the systems with which we wanted
to share resources. We also ran the xhost
+ command on each host to permit re-
mote clients to use the DESQview/X PC
as a display.

Each communications service you en-
able requires at least one TCP/IP socket,
although FTP Software provides four free
sockets by default. Network buffers also
can be increased to improve network
performance. We increased the param-
eters by modifying the line that loads the
FTP kernel for the network interface card
in our AUTOEXEC.BAT file to 16 sock-
ets and eight network buffers.

After all the files are copied, install
automatically adds the existing programs
on the PC to the DESQview/X open
window menu and the applications man-
ager window. The setup program is run,
accepting defaults that can be changed at
a later time, if required. All options, in-
cluding display, keyboard, mouse,
printer, network, startup, window man-
ager and time performance, can be
reconfigured by running the setup pro-
gram from the DOS prompt or from
within DESQview/X.

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Beyond its windowing and multitasking
capabilities lies DESQview/X’s distributed
computing capability. This is perhaps the
most remarkable feature. Two DOS-
based PC users can share files, applications
and devices that reside on either system.
There are other products on the market-
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user 1s performing some other task.

Even more remarkable is the capabil-
ity provided to X terminal or worksta-
tion users which allows them to run DOS
applications as clients on the DESQ-
view/X workstation. X users see DOS ap-
plications running in front of them on
their display. However, the actual appli-
cation is executing on the DESQview/X
DOS machine. In the past, the only way
to come close to performing such a feat
was to use DOS under a UNIX emula-
tor. DESQview/X allows you to add a
DOS application server to your network,
a server that can be accessed by several
X terminal users at the same time.

We verified that the system was pre-
pared to accept X-Server connection re-
quests by running Qconnect, a
DESQview/X-provided utility. Ready to
begin our remote computing capabilities,
we started by typing dvx. The menu dis-
played the master list of available com-
mands, including the ability to open and
close windows, switch to another win-
dow, rearrange, help, quit, and so on.

Outside Your Window

To run a program, we had to choose
Open Window. The Open Window
menu lists all the programs that have
been installed in the software, as well as
other menus to get to more programs.
From the Open Window menu, we se-
lected remote DOS and were prompted
to enter the name of the DESQview/X
PC. We connected to a laptop PC and
without difficulty, began programs on the
remote machine from the DOS window
displayed on our system.

Because connecting between a DOS
PC and a UNIX server seemed mysteri-
ously exciting, we gave it a go. Using
non-DESQview/X systems, such as X
workstations or X terminals, requires
some additional information before con-
necting. We gathered information about
the various host names and passwords of
the hosts systems we wanted to connect

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to. Using ping, we verified the connec-
tion to our HP 9000/834, Sun IPC, and
DEC 3100 hosts. We opened a DOS win-
dow on our DESQview/X PC and made
a Telnet connection to the HP 9000 host.
By entering the name of an X Windows
program on the remote system and send-

ing the display to our DESQview/X PC,
we easily started the X programs.

We also could use the remote shell
command, rsh. This sends a command
line to a remote machine, which will in
turn execute the command for the initi-
ating user. By entering rsh labsun -1

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processors and memory on DOS PCs

no longer have to be locked away from

the UNIX users on your network.

marty maze -display labdv:0, we dis-
played the maze program running on the
HP 9000 to our PC. The rexec command
can be used in place of the rsh command
if the system you’re connecting to
prompts for a password.

Connecting to the DESQview/X PC
from a non-DESQview/X system was just
as easy. Any DOS character-based pro-
gram, Microsoft Windows application or
X Window System program can be used.

A totally unmodified DOS program can
become an X client usable on any X
server. To start a DOS session on the
DESQview/X PC and display it on the
HP 9000, we entered rsh labdv -1 marty
DOS. A DOS window displayed on the
HP host, permitting us to run any appli-
cation on the DESQview/X PC. The
function keys worked just as though we
were sitting in front of the PC. We were
able to print to the connected printer and

even dial out on the modem connected
to the PC,

We opened multiple DOS windows
to the DESQview/X PC from a variety
of UNIX host systems simultaneously. At
the same time, we could use the PC for
local applications. And, we could run the
DESQview/X companion programs from
any location. The File Manager compan-
ion program permitted us to display a
listing of the files on the DESQview/X
PC and the HP 9000 on the same screen.
We could then move and copy files be-
tween the systems by clicking on the ap-
propriate buttons.

Thanks to DESQview applications,
files, printers, processors and memory on
a DOS PC no longer have to be myste-
riously locked away. Instead, these re-
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for each user. So, if you want UNIX

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needs to be considered inconsequential.
If, for whatever peculiar reason, you
want to conduct a search of your data-
base based upon occurrences, and varia-
tions of those occurrences, of the string
“42fortytwo”, TRIP will be more than
happy to take on the job. And, it can do
that job not only under HP-UX but also
through SUN OS, RISC Ultrix, VMS and
Windows. So even if yours is a mixed
environment, TRIP can navigate it.

Born To Be Wild

TRIP’s database engine is, as we’ve
mentioned, specifically designed to
handle large amounts of variable-length
text data. Like more garden-variety da-
tabases, a TRIP data file is organized into
records and fields. However, TRIP also
supports many unconventional data
types. In addition to integer and real
numbers, and date, time, and string fields,
TRIP accepts free text and phrase as
data types, and can allow graphics and
other unusual materials to be stored as
strings. The data type free text can be
further subdivided into paragraphs, sen-
tences and words.

A benefit of this subdivision is the fact
that TRIP can do positional searches; it
can literally find Word A and Word B in
the same paragraph or sentence, with the
further criterion that A and B be sepa-
rated by two other words.

Physically, a TRIP application consists
of several files. A “BAF” file contains the
actual data. Two other files hold indexes
to that data. One of these, the Base In-
dex File (BIF) stores positional informa-
tion for items in the BAF file. The other,
the Vocabulary Index File or VIF, is the
index file for BIF. In effect, VIF contains
pointers to items that are only parts of
fields indexed in BIF.

TRIP also makes use of another file,
which is itself a TRIP database; but
which, rather than containing user-ini-
tiated data, holds control information re-
garding many aspects of how TRIP
operates. That is, this Control File is
TRIP’s way of managing users, user
groups, output formats, entry forms,
search forms, and procedures/macros.
TRIP gives you the ability to create all

of these entities. It then administers them
for you by means of the Control File.

Question Authority

As its query language, TRIP uses some-
thing called the Common Command
Language (CCL), which follows the ISO
standard for query languages for text da-
tabases. CCL includes all the standard
search and query capabilities that any da-
tabase would be expected to handle.
Those in need of complex Boolean fa-
cilities will be glad to know that CCL can
handle such relationships easily, no mat-
ter the degree to which they are nested
or chained. Further, as one would expect
of a text database worth its salt, CCL can:
m Use left and right truncation, and
wildcards, in searches.

m Carry out proximity searches.

@ Report on the frequency of occurrence
of a search term.

m Do thesaurus searching, that is, find not
only requested items but synonyms and
even near-synonyms for those items.

For the programmer, TRIP offers an
interesting feature called an Application
Software Exit (ASE). An ASE is applica-
tion-dependant code that becomes part
of a TRIP database structure. ASEs define
exit points from the standard TRIP code
into user-written subroutines. Typical
uses of ASEs include:

@ Passing a “hit” from a TRIP search to
the user-written routine as an argument.
m Automatically passing hits from TRIP
searches to predefined output formats.

m Using the ASE to carry out error
checking of user-defined extent on
data entry.

Finally, Paralog now is working on
what might be called an extended Bool-
ean search capability that not only finds
occurrences of search terms, but also
weights those hits according to user-de-
fined rankings. Just another side-TRIP,
but one with real potential usefulness.

Tune In And Turn On

The installation procedure on our HP
9000/830 was pretty much a standard HP-
UX install, and included using [[tar/
cpio]], starting a TRIP queue daemon by
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ing a TRIP service on the Internet by us-
ing vi on /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/ser-
vices. Any system administrator who is
at all UNIX-conversant should be able to
load TRIP without faltering.

TRIP’s user interface, called
TRIPClient, is built on OSF/Motif. As a
map for our own TRIPing, we used
Paralog’s Guide for TRIP Managers. We
created a database through the Database
Design form specifying a database name,
home directory, a default data entry form
(not yet created), and the searchable spe-
cial characters “~” and “|”. We deter-
mined that because TRIP permits
searches based on what would otherwise
be reserved symbols, we might as well
push it to the max and use characters that
both it and UNIX might ordinarily in-
terpret rather than simply accept.

Next, we proceeded to the second of
TRIP’s standard forms, its Field Design
screen, which allows the user/designer to
designate field names, data types, and

TRIP permits searches
based on what would
otherwise be system-

reserved symbols.

whether the field is indexed or contains
white space to be ignored during
searches. We saved the contents of these
windows from the menu item Save on
the Database Design screen. Then we
modified the design by means of the Edit
item on these same two screens, chang-
ing data types and adding accounting in-
formation.

In our role as TRIP manager, we used
the Databases option of TRIP’s main
menu to arrive first at its Administration
function, and from there to travel to Re-

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name, Copy and Transfer. There we re-
spectively changed the name of an ex-
isting database design, created a new
database by simply copying an existing
design, and gave Manager rights for the
databases in question to a different user.
As was the case with our first TRIP, this
second one was a complete success.

We concluded our journey by devis-
ing data entry and query forms, noting
a couple of interesting side-lights along
the way. The only limit to the number
of fields on such forms is a spatial one;
if your monitor can hold them, you can
lay them out. TRIP currently relies on
the standard Motif color map in creat-
ing and presenting forms. However,
Paralog is working on its own such
map in an effort to get around the prob-
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I recently got
my hands on
some unofficial
(not from mar-
keting) network benchmark numbers
that may help you determine how to or-
ganize a mixed network of Series 700
machines and Domain/OS systems.
These tests were performed casually (no
white lab coats and clipboards here), in
a way you would typically use a network.
Keep in mind that all of these numbers
were compiled on an isolated network
with no other traffic. Of course, the 700s
were running HP-UX, and all other ma-
chines were running Domain/OS.

Table 1 lists NFS performance using
Sun Microsystems’ NFS benchmark test.
Just for laughs, I threw in one set of Do-
main/OS DDS numbers. Remember,
these numbers are not for quantitative
analysis, just comparison. By changing
block sizes for reads and writes, and al-
tering the memory amounts, these num-
bers can vary greatly. All machines in this

test were configured with 8 MB RAM (to —

slow things down), the 700 was on HP-
UX 8.07, and the Domain/OS machines
were all on SR10.4 with NFS 2.3.

I decided that it’s best to leave the Se-
ries 400 machines on Domain/OS until
it no longer makes sense for application

Domain NFS is great
for those who need to
access many files around

the network.

data files on a Series 700, on the other
hand, leave a lot to be desired.

The best way to achieve decent per-
formance with a mixed set of clients
would be to leave a database on a Series
400 running Domain/OS and let that be
an NFS server. Let the other Domain
machines access the database through
DDS services, and let Series 700s use NFS
to access the database.

You could also customize the net-
work so that one Series 700 could sup-
port read-only databases (such as
man-pages) for other 700s, but all 700s
would access true (read-write) databases
from Domain/OS NFS servers. This way

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The Numbers Advantage

the other Domain machines still could

use DDS to access the database. Note that

the Domain/OS NFS machine should be

the fastest machine available to you.
The general rules are:

gw Maximize Domain to Domain access.

mw Maximize HP-UX to HP-UX NFS ac-

cess for reads.

mw Maximize HP-UX to Domain NFS

writes,

m Minimize writes to HP-UX NFS serv-

ers.

FTP Transfer Rates
One thing to keep in mind in a UNIX
network is that Domain NFS is great for
those who need to access many files
around the network. But it isn’t the fast-
est method of transferring large files. To
prove the point, Table 2 shows FTP trans-
fer rates achieved in an informal test.
Note the 720 to 720 speed, twice of
that seen with reads in NFS. The point
is, when speed is an issue, Domain ad-
ministrators need to avoid the habit of
copying files with network-wide
pathnames. Note that the speed dropped

reasons. I suggest waiting at least until the READS
next HP-UX release is available and well- Server Protocol Speed (KB/s)
tested. It seems fairly obvious from Table 400T DDS 537.9
1 that Domain/OS using DDS services to 4007 NFS 230.4

va 720 NFS 542.2
access remote files for reads or writes is 720 NES 357 3
the best solution. But, what happens
when you introduce Series 700s? WRITES

Server Protocol Speed (KB/s)

Performance Reviews 400T DDS 312

NFS performance, when reading from a 400T NFS 274
700 acting as an NFS server for a set of - ae es
data files, is good for both 700s and Do-
main/OS machines. Writes to NFS served

NFS System Relative Performance.

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Network

Thinnet
ATR

Thinnet
Thinnet

greatly when a Series 700 used the Apollo
Token Ring (ATR). The TCP packets
had to be wrapped in DDS type packets
before being sent. This is much like the
speed drops seen when using TCP/IP
instead of DDS on Domain nodes in
an ATR.

Many sites don’t have FTP running
and don’t want to. In that case, you
could use rep to copy files (directories)
across the network instead of using the
“thorn in the foot of UNIX” (NFS). rep
will be faster than NFS. Using the -p op-
tion should preserve ownership and

FTP Transfer Rates In Test.

modes, but I’ve seen this not work. In
that case, here’s another method that
takes advantage of the stream I/O meth-
ods used by UNIX. This command looks
cryptic, but does work.

To copy the file copy_this, which
lives in the directory “dir” on HP-UX
host H700a to this host, and put it in di-
rectory “/dira”:

remsh H/00a “(cdi /dir ;tar cf -
ye | CCG: Cl ra Star xvt =)

copy_this

This method always preserves owner and
times, as it uses tar to do the copy.

Patch Works

Here are more warnings about SR10.4.
GPIO seems to be wicked broke. Most
programs that make gpio_$ calls don’t
work. Also, many vfmt_$ calls that
weren’t corrected in earlier releases,
which count on the old aegis stream 3
to be duplicated on stream 2, are broken.
Fortunately, there’s now a patch tape
available with many patches that address
the printing problem as well as many
other problems.

There’s also a problem with alternate
GLB cells. A node that’s assigned to a cell
will occasionally pick up a global from
another cell. The time period for clock
skew between globals also has been
dropped from 10 minutes to less than
three. — Fred Mallett is president of FAME
Computer Education in Corpus Christi, TX.
He also serves on the InterWorks board of di-
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HP announced at the August INTER WORKS Users Confer-
ence that future releases of its HP-UX FORTRAN/9000 com-
pilers will adhere to the FORTRAN 90 standard. A superset of
the well-known ANSI 77 FORTRAN standard, FORTRAN 90
is the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard for
multiplatform FORTRAN compilers. The standard is designed
to enable application developers to more easily develop and main-
tain portable, open systems FORTRAN applications.

According to Sandhya Klute, Computer Languages Operations
marketing manager for HP’s Systems Technology Division, HP
customers in scientific and engineering markets were requesting
conformance to the standard. “FORTRAN remains a dominant
language for applications in computation and analysis in the sci-
entific marketplace. FORTRAN 90 is big news for prospective
HP customers who want to replace older, costly supercomputers
or downsize from costly mainframes and minis to client-server
platforms like HP-UX.”

HP plans to phase in FORTRAN 90 compliance over time
in order to deliver the features software developers want most
while maintaining a seamless upgrade path to future FORTRAN
implementations. The first phase of the FORTRAN 90 imple-
mentation will begin with release 9.0 of HP-UX, which is ex-

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features such as array notation, automatic arrays, allocatable arrays and
character objects, as well as type declaration syntax and control con-
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HP-UX FORTRAN also will support other features designed
to simplify porting applications across Cray, Digital, IBM, Sun and
HP platforms. BSD’s libU77, a FORTRAN interface to system rou-
tines, provides for enhanced SunOS and DEC Ultrix compatibility.
And an AUTODOUBLE feature allows developers to transparently
maintain the floating-point precision offered by supercomputers from
Cray and IBM on less-costly workstation platforms. Several of
Digital’s VAX/VMS extensions to HP-UX FORTRAN, including
RECORDS, NAMELIST, BYTE and REAL*16 data types, vari-
able-format expressions and LOGICAL representation also will be
incorporated.

“HP now offers the most accepting FORTRAN in the indus-
try,” says Klute. “FORTRAN 90 should put the Series 700 in an
excellent position to capitalize on high-performance FORTRAN
markets as users move toward low-cost hardware and open systems
standards.”— Don Marks, Managing Editor.

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NewWave 4.0
includes many
enhancements
in the Agent
Task Language (ATL). You can use a few
of these new commands to access rou-
tines in any DLL including those that
make up Windows. This lets you write
powerful Windows applications using
only the ATL.

The three new statements and func-
tions that allow you to work with ex-
ternal DLLs are DLLLOAD, DLLCALL
and DLLFREE.

You use DLLLOAD to open the DLL
that contains the routine you want to ac-
cess. DLLCALL lets you actually make the
call to any routine within the DLL. And
DLLFREE closes the DLL when you’re
finished accessing its routines.

Supporting these calls are several ad-
ditional data types so you can create al-
most any type an external DLL may

require.

You Make The Calls

Before you can use a subroutine or func-
tion from a DLL, you need to establish a
way to refer to the DLL file that contains
the routine. You do this with the
DLLLOAD statement, which returns a
variable called a “handle.” Use this
handle in subsequent calls to refer to the
DLL. The general format for this state-
ment is:

ique identification n
ew Wave variable hUser.

rectOry, “"PObimiag O specify the fully
qualified filename for the DLL. Another
caveat: Windows refers to the KRNL file
for your particular system type using the
generic name KERNEL.EXE. This frees
you, as a user of DLL calls, from deter-
mining what class of system you’re run-
ning on, but it’s an inconsistency you
need to remember.

Once you have a handle, or reference
to a DLL, you can call any of the sub-
routines or functions in that DLL. In the
past, I’ve described how you can use a

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program like TDUMP, which is included
with many of Borland’s compiler prod-
ucts, to view the routines within any
DLL. That listing, along with the Win-
dows programming documentation, en-
ables you to fully utilize Windows’
built-in DLLs.

The general form of the statement
used in NewWave to execute routines is:

returnvar = DLLCALL(handle, CallName,
RetType, Lvarl, vartypel....]

Don’t panic! It only looks complicated.
Let’s take a look at the parameters, and
how you might use them.

Stay Within The Parameters
The first parameter to DLLCALL is the
handle to the DLL file that was returned
from the DLLLOAD call.

Next comes the name of the subrou-
tine or function you want to execute
within the opened DLL file.

The third parameter is a flag repre-
senting the type of data to be returned
to your task in “returnval.” The
“RetType” parameter should be one of
the data types listed in Table 1.
NewWave stores all variables internally as
strings or long numerics. Because rou-
tines require certain data types.

LPINTEGER!
LPINT!
LPFLOAT!
LPLONG!
LPDOUBLE
LPBYTE!
LPARRAY!
LPMEM!

Integer pointer
Integer pointer
Float pointer
Long pointer
Double pointer
Byte pointer
Array pointer
Memory pointer

INTEGER! Integer

Integer

handle = DLLLOAD(DLLFILE)
For example, to open the USER.EXE FLOAT!

DLL, you would use this statement:

DOUBLE! Double

hUser# = DLLLOAD( “USER. EXE”)
LPSTRING!
LPSTR!

String pointer
String pointer

This statement opens the USER.EXE file
in the Windows directory, and assigns a

NewWave Data Types for DLLCALL.

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hUser# = DLLLOAD(“USER.EXE”)

freemem# = DLLCALL(hUser#, “GetFreeMem”, LONG!, 0, INT!)
MESSAGE OK# HAND “Total free memory = “+str(freemem#)

NewWave allows you to specify the for-
mat in which variables should be passed
to the DLL routines.

Any other parameters are optional,
and the number of parameters depends
on which subroutine or function you’re
calling. Again, because DLLCALL needs
to know the data type for each param-
eter, the arguments appear in pairs: The
first variable contains data (or a buffer for
returning data from a subroutine), while
the second variable indicates the data type
of the previous argument. The data type
should be one of those supported by
NewWave and listed in Table 1.

The data types supported by
NewWave are listed in Table 1. Be sure
to match the data type, or you may find
your DLL call doesn’t work and may
even crash your system!

Heres 9 teal life~exampic. In
USER.EXE, there is a routine call
GetFreeMem that returns the a number
of bytes of free memory. Checking a
Windows Programming manual, you'll
find the GetFreeMem takes an integer

ATL statements to call GetFreeMem.

parameter indicating which type of
memory you're interested in, and it re-
turns a long value indicating the amount
of memory. Passing a zero causes the
function to return total free memory.
Thus, our ATL program would look like
the segment listed in Figure 1.

When you’re finished using a handle
to a DLL, it’s good programming prac-
tice to “clean up” by closing the link and
freeing the handle. To do this, you use
the DLLFREE statement:

DLLFREE( hUser#)

Using these basic methods and vari-
able types, you can directly manipulate
DLLs from NewWave ATL tasks. Good
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Although there
are client-ser—
ver products
available to run
HP 3000 applications from the desktop,
many companies still are struggling just
to use their PCs as dumb terminals. It is
possible, however, and fairly easy to ac-
complish the task of making your PC an
HP terminal.

Connecting your PC to an HP 3000
using a serial link is the most common
application. First, string an RS-232 cable
from your PC’s serial port to a terminal
port on your HP 3000 or your HP DTC.
Next, install a terminal emulation prod-
uct on your PC, make the necessary con-
figurations and you’re on your way.

The real questions come when you
want to use your LAN to connect the PC
to your HP 3000. My examples will deal
with Ethernet as opposed to Token Ring
networks. Although people are more fa-
miliar with Ethernet, the concepts can be
applied to Token Ring networks, as well.

The first requirement is to have your
HP 3000 attached to an Ethernet net-
work. The new PA-RISC systems come
network ready. Older, classic machines
need the installation of a LANIC card to
give it a network interface. You also
need to have the appropriate HP network
software installed, such as ThinLAN Link
and NS3000 Network Services.

Next you need a PC, with network
card, and a terminal emulation program.
Understanding how these pieces fit to-
gether is particularly important.

Driver’s Ed

The first part of the puzzle is your net-
work card. Available from many differ-
ent companies, this piece of hardware

connects to the network to send and re-
trieve your data. A special software driver
provided by the manufacturer controls
the card and provides an interface to ap-
plications that want to use the network.
There are four types of drivers, Propri-
etary, Packet, NDIS and ODI. Of these
drivers, Packet, NDIS, and ODI allow
software applications to concurrently
share the network card.

Proprietary drivers only allow one
program to use the network at a time.
Older drivers required you to reboot the
system if you wanted to run another net-
work application. Packet drivers came
out of the Internet environment and are
used with TCP/IP Telnet and FTP soft-
ware. NDIS drivers were developed for
use with LAN Manager. Novell networks
were the breeding ground for the ODI
specification.

Because your PC is probably part of
a PC-based network, such as LAN Man-
ager or Novell, NDIS and ODI drivers are
probably of most interest. These drivers
allow you to load and unload your ap-

Linking Desktop Systems With The HP 3000 Doesn’t Have To Be A Struggle

PCs With Ease, Please

plication software at will, eliminating fre-
quent reboots of your machine.

Don’t Blow Your Stack

The second part of the puzzle is the ter-
minal emulation software. Because you
are using a network, this software must
also supply a protocol stack. The most
common protocol stack is TCP/IP. If you
haven’t kept up with the news, the HP
3000 now supports TCP/IP.

The HP 3000 has a program called
NS/VT that handles the job of running
virtual terminal sessions. Your terminal
emulator has to provide software that can
communicate with this NS/VT program
on the HP 3000. For now, let’s call this
PC-based program, NS/VT link. This
NS/VT link program provided by your
terminal emulator uses the protocol stack
to communicate with the network card
and interfaces directly with your termi-
nal program.

Because NS/VT is proprietary it can
be frustrating because no one outside the

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be attentive to performance (both CPU
and Network), and reliable. Fortunately,
it does do these things very well.

Now that all the pieces are together
the process works like this. When you
type something on your terminal screen,
it’s taken by the NS/VT link software and
passed to the protocol stack. The proto-
col stack with the use of the network
card and its drivers transmits the data over
the network. When the response comes
back from the host, the network card re-
ceives it and, using the drivers, passes it
up to the protocol stack. The protocol
stack then passes it to the NS/VT link,
which gives it to the terminal emulator
for display on your screen.

No Hard Choices

This basic configuration I’ve described
will meet the requirements of about 90
percent of the sites looking to network
their PCs to an HP-3000. All the pieces
are widely available on the market today.

Your biggest choice is whether you
use NDIS or ODI drivers. Your current
environment of PC LANs may determine
that rather quickly. All the major termi-
nal emulation packages can be purchased
with the NS/VT link and the correct pro-
tocol stack. But not all the protocol stacks
supplied by these vendors will support
both ODI and NDIS drivers. They may
support one and not the other. Customer
demand is—if you'll pardon the pun—
“driving” vendors to repair this defect
quickly.

Other methods of PC connection ex-
ist but they aren’t as straightforward. Re-
member, HP terminal emulation is only
important if you’re using block-mode
applications. For years Cognos’ Power-
house product Quick has supported a
staggering variety of non-HP terminals.
The use of terminal types when logging
on, also eliminates many problems. Ten
years ago I used my Commodore 64 to
dial into and remotely maintain an HP
3000 using the term type of 18.

A few years ago HP sold a product
that allowed PC network users to access

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the HP 3000 through a special gateway
PC. It worked, it was expensive, but it
was appropriate for its time. Today, that
product no longer exists, but it still
comes up in discussions on PC connec-
tivity. You don’t need a gateway and you
don’t need to spend one million dollars.
You probably only need to buy a termi-
nal emulator and change the drivers for

the network cards you already have in
house. It really is that simple! — Tim
Cahoon provides wide ‘area network and HP
technical support for the manufacturing opera-
tions of a Fortune 500 company.

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Programming
languages cur-

rently in wide-
spread use in-
clude FORTRAN, COBOL, PASCAL,
Assembler, MPE SPL and C. These gen-
erally are regarded as procedural languages.
They represent a linear style of thinking
that translates nicely into flow charts and
hierarchical diagrams. The dominant ap-
proach to software development for
nearly 40 years, this type of design is not
about to go away.

In the early 1970s, however, a new
group of languages began to emerge,
starting with Simula, evolving into
Small Talk and arriving at C++, Eiffel and
Objective C. These are the object-ori-
ented or objective languages. Objective
languages include both object-oriented
and object-based languages, and support
the notion of designing around classes
and software objects. The list of object-
oriented languages is growing, and older
languages are being updated to include
object-oriented features.

COBOL, long a procedural language,
is now being enhanced with object-ori-
ented capabilities. Various dialects of
PASCAL already have become more ob-
ject-oriented. And the next standard for
Ada (Ada 9X) will have greater support
for object-oriented features. Now there
is even an object-oriented version of the
FORTH language. And entirely new lan-
guages, such as ACTOR, have been de-
signed specifically to support object-
oriented development.

Many regard the current craze for ob-
jects as the proverbial “silver bullet” for
software productivity problems. Osten-
sibly, this is a new paradigm for software
development that parallels the way we
think about other problems. Although I
am a strong supporter of the object-ori-

ented paradigm, I resist the view that it’s
the cure for all our programming ills.
Another set of languages, which will
become increasingly important, is the so-
called 4GL language category. Currently,
these range from simple report prepara-
tion languages to fully-developed lan-
guages for total system design and

Many regard
the current craze

for objects as the

”

proverbial “silver bullet
for software

productivity problems.

implementation. Some of these lan-
guages, such as Powerhouse, Protos and
Insight, are designed to support informa-
tion systems applications. Others, such as
the recently introduced language, S, from
Statistical Sciences, are designed for
mathematical data analysis. In fact, S is
available for HP-UX environments and
provides a powerful set of capabilities for
advanced statistical analysis.

Tomorrow’s Lingua Franca?

At present, I believe three programming
languages have high survivability rates:
C++, Ada and COBOL-85. If you pro-
gram in C and you have C++ available,
you should make the transition to C++.
If you program in PASCAL or FOR-
TRAN or C (without C++ available) and
can switch to Ada, you should make the
transition to Ada. If you program in CO-
BOL and have a COBOL-85 compiler,
make the change as soon as possible.

Fluency In Multiple Languages And Methodologies Gives You A Competitive Edge

The Polyglot Programmer

From a compiler point-of-view, the
easiest of these transitions is from C to
C++ or from COBOL to COBOL-85.
Ada requires some substantial additional
training. From a software engineering
point-of-view, the transition to any of
these languages requires considerable
training.

In almost any situation, if you use a
C++ compiler on your existing C code,
there won’t be a noticeable difference.
However, from a design point-of-view,
there will be some significant differences.
First, C++ can be used as a better C.
Eventually, it can be used to move your
software engineering applications in the
direction of object-oriented program-
ming, and ultimately, object-oriented
analysis and design. The long-term ben-
efits of using C++ early will put your or-
ganization ahead of the game. It could
give you a competitive edge.

Ada is a different story. This is an ex-
cellent language for large projects that
require a high degree of reliability and
maintainability. It’s also a language with
exceptional portability across various plat-
forms.

There is, unfortunately, no “royal
road” to Ada. It requires an early com-
mitment to object-oriented design, and
an investment in training. The move to
Ada will require an in-depth view of its
benefits, but once those benefits begin to
accrue, it will be seen as having been a
wise choice.

The central issue for both Ada and
C++ is the need to change the way you
think about software design and imple-
mentation. Because neither of these lan-
guages is a traditional “procedural”
language, you'll need to understand some
new concepts. The concepts aren’t inher-
ently hard, but they are different from
what you have understood in the past
about software.

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BOL-85 isn’t one of the objective lan-
guages. It is, however, a significant
improvement over the earlier incarna-
tions of this language. The problem is,
most programmers and designers who
have made the transition to COBOL-85
still are not aware how powerful the new
language can be.

The transition to the COBOL-85 lan-
guage won’t simply change the way pro-
grammers lay code. It can and should
change the way systems analysts specify
and design systems. The more powerful
features of COBOL-85 are not in the syn-
tactical improvements such as END-IF,
etc. The real advances in COBOL-85 are
in the ability to build more maintainable,
more reliable code through the software
engineering principles of information
hiding, localization and modularity. This
raises serious design issues. Systems de-

signers who have been raised on older
versions of COBOL usually fail to recog-
nize how to use these new concepts, so
this requires some additional education.

C++, Ada and COBOL-85 are not
“the best” languages. My favorite, gen-
eral purpose language is an object-ori-
ented language called Eiffel. One
problem with Eiffel is that it is a propri-
etary language. Only one company
makes Eiffel compilers, and these are not
available on as many platforms as the
other languages cited.

Language Lessons
If you’re a software engineer, you need
to understand the fundamental benefits of
different classes of programming lan-
guages. Although you also should have
some experience programming in several
of them, but your main job is not pro-
gramming.

If you’re programmer, you would do

well to be fluent in several languages. For
example, if the only language in your
repertoire is COBOL, your thinking will
be severely limited. The same would be
true, however, if you only knew C.
Think of yourself as a carpenter with a
toolbox. As they say, if your only tool is
a hammer, every problem will look like
a nail.

The best language? As a programmer,
if your toolbox is well stocked, you can
select the language appropriate to the
problem at hand. As a software designer,
if you know the characteristics of differ-
ent tools, you can specify the correct
tools along with the architecture of the
system.—Richard Riehle is president of
AdaWorks in Palo Alto, CA.

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(800) 237-4641, (408) 379-6900 or circle 105.

BRADMARK TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Your total HP3000/IMAGE database solution that
includes: DBGENERAL, the most complete general-
purpose database utility available in the HP 3000 market.
And SUPERDEX, the fully compatible indexing
package that provides unprecedented data retrieval speed
and flexibility. Both are reasons why Bradmark is
committed to provide premier data management
solutions. Call 1-800-ASK-BRAD or circle 184.

CAMINTONN CORP.

100% compatible memory for HP 9000, IBM RS/6000,
Sun SPAR Cstations and other workstations.

Call (800) 843-8336 or circle 294.

COGNOS CORP.

Cognos provides application development software for
HP MPE V, MPE XL and HP-UX platforms.

Call (800) 4-COGNOS or circle 117.

COMPUSERVE/COLLIER JACKSON

Compuserve/Collier Jackson serves as a Hewlett-Packard
Premier Solution Provider for the HP 3000 Series of
midrange computers. Its products include financial
accounting and human resource management systems for
cross-industry business applications as well as newspaper
systems for circulation, business and advertising
management. Direct inquiries to: Gary Vigneau, vice
president of sales and marketing at (813) 872-9900

or circle 111.

COMPUTECH SYSTEMS CORP.

The complete line of HP 3000, 1000 and 9000
equipment, compatibles and accessories.

Call (800) 882-0201 or circle 101.

COMPUTER SOLUTIONS INC.

Computer Solutions is a Hewlett-Packard VAB in its
24th year of operation. Businesses include HP hardware
resale, disaster recovery services for HP users, school and
pharmacy software, contract maintenance and depot
repair. Call (201) 672-6000 or circle 167.

CONTEMPORARY CYBERNETICS GROUP

Contemporary Cybernetics manufactures a complete
family of backup systems that range in capacity from the
150 MB QIC streamer to a 2 TB cartridge handling
system. Call (804) 873-0900, FAX (804) 873-8836,

or circle 112.

CREATIVE SYSTEMS

HP 3000 specialists, software development, systems
management, data processing solutions, HP/PC
communications, barcode data collection solutions
specializing in Compsee, MARS, SATO equipment.
Call (800) 383-2700, in CA (408) 294-6595

or circle 164.

DATARAM CORP.

High-performance memory add-ins for HP 9000/345-
375-380-400, HP9000/350-370, HP9000/360,
HP9000/340, DN30x0, 3500, 4000, 4500, DSP 3000,
4000 Series workstations and servers. High quality and
reliability at low prices. Call (800) 822-0071, in NJ (609)
799-0071 or circle 240.

DISC

OMNIDEX provides instant online relational access to
corporate data. Combine OMNIDEX, OmniWindow
and OmniQuest for a complete online information
system that can be added to any application with little or
no code changes — all through PC-like windows.

Call (303) 444-4000 or circle 113.

DISK EMULATION SYSTEMS

Ultra high performance SOLID STATE STORAGE
subsystems provide solution to I/O performance
bottlenecks. Transaction rates in the thousands create
system wide performance gains that reduce both user
response time and batch job processing times from 50-
500%. Call (408) 727-5497, FAX (408) 727-5496

or circle 459.

EQUINOX SYSTEMS INC.

Intelligent Data PBXs provide reliable solutions for
secure connectivity between multivendor host
computers, terminals, PCs and peripherals.

Call (800) 328-2729 or circle 115.

HERSTAL AUTOMATION LTD.

Reasonably priced data storage subsystems with
performance in mind. Call (313) 548-2001

or circle 119.

HOLLAND HOUSE

Network spooling solutions for the HP 3000, HP 9000,
PC and other platforms. Call (512) 287-3417, FAX (512)
287-3850 or circle 286.

HOOLEON CORP.

Custom printed Hewlett-Packard keys in your choice of
colors. Keytop labels, keyboard templates and more. Call
(800) 937-1337, FAX (602) 634-4620 or circle 474.

HYPOINT TECHNOLOGY INC.

Remarketing the full line of HP 3000 equipment.
Maintenance in selected cities nationwide. Call for your
HP 3000 needs. (800) 321-4671 or circle 244.

IEM INC.

Affordable hardware solutions, from memory boards and
interface cards to the latest in optical disk technology.
Call (303) 223-6071, (800) 321-4671 or circle 122.

INFORMATION BUILDERS INC.

4GL/DBMS for HP MPE XL and HP-UX systems
offering application development, reporting and decision
support. Supported on all major platforms. Call (212)
736-4433 or circle 247.

INFOTEK SYSTEMS

Leading manufacturer of high-performance HP
enhancements including memory, BASIC compilers, data
acquisition boards and digital signal processors.

Call (800) 227-0218; in CA (800) 523-1682 or circle 181.

ISA CO. LTD. / TEXAS ISA INC.

Complete range of mass storage devices and other
peripherals for HP 3000, 1000 and 9000 from ISA.
Call (713) 493-9925, FAX (713) 493-2924 or circle 245.

KELLY COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Manufacturer of performance products: RAMDISC,
Spectrum memory, Classic memory, and PC and LaserJet
memory. CPU upgrades also available.

Call (415) 960-1010 or circle 185.

KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY CORP.

Kingston Technology designs and manufacturers
memory upgrades for PCs, laptops, workstations and laser
printers. The Kingston product line also features mass
storage subsystems and processor upgrades. Call (800)
835-2545, FAX (714) 435-2699 or circle 281.

LOGICRAFT

Access the full library of CD ROM applications from
your HP 9000 Series 400/700 workstation.

Call (603) 880-0300 or circle 452.

MARTECH

Highest quality solutions at the lowest price available.
Complete line of memory products for HP 9000, 3000
and 1000 computers. Also RAM for Apollo Domain
Series 2500-5500. Ship from stock. Call for your pricing
today! Call (800) 582-3555 or circle 220.

M.B. FOSTER ASSOCIATES LTD.

Utility software supplier, specializing in PC/mini
integration, EDI software and customer service and
support. WRQ distributor. Call (800) ANSWERS
or circle 155.

MINISOFT INC.

Minisoft 92 for DOS and Windows providing HP
terminal emultaion and LAN connectivity for just $129.
Call (800) 682-0200 or circle 472.

NEWPORT DIGITAL CORP.

Accelerator cards for HP 9000 Series 200 plus HP 310
and HP 320. Ten-fold performance improvement.
Call (714) 730-3644 or circle 246.

NSD INC.

With job management and MIS productivity products
from NSD, your HP 3000/9000 will run smoother,
faster and better. Call (415) 573-5923, (800) 538-3818 or
circle 161.

O’PIN SYSTEMS

REVEAL from O’PIN SYSTEMS solves report
distribution problems. Users go “paperless” and view
reports directly from PCs or terminals. Saves time and
fast payback too! Call (800) OPIN or circle 258.

QUEST SOFTWARE

The only complete HP 3000 solution for:

1) High speed network file and database access.
2) IMAGE,KSAM and MPE file shadowing.

3) Low overhead network spooling.

Call (714) 720-1434 or circle 268.

ROSS SYSTEMS HP

Financial, distribution, manufacturing and 4GL software
for both the HP 3000 and 9000 product lines.

Call (617) 622-1414 or (800) 942-3366 or circle 153.

SOTAS INTERNATIONAL

Provides “Accountable Solutions” financial software
under easy-to-use SOTAS Controller Environment. Call
(508) 521-1300 or circle 498.

UNISON/TYMLABS CORP.

BACKPACK

A family of high-speed and unattended backup software
for HP 3000s. Free demo.

Call (800) 767-0611 or circle 140.

UNISON/TYMLABS CORP.

FORMATION

Formation for the HP 3000 is a complete electronic
forms solution that lets MPE V and MPE XL users
replace pre-printed continuous forms with electronically
generated overlays printed on plain paper using laser
printers. Call (800) 767-0611 for free demo or circle 141.

UNISON/TYMLABS CORP.

SESSION

Windows application that allows you to connect PCs to
HP 3000s and HP 9000s. Supports Windows/286,
Windows/386 and Windows 3.0.

Call (800) 767-0611 or circle 243.

VITAL SOFT INC.

VISIMAGE the end user report writer for the HP 3000
market. StarJet, the electronic forms solution for your
HP LaserJet. VISIMAGE and StarJet can be sold
independently. Call (800) 7VITALSOFT for a free demo
or circle 143.

WALKER RICHER & QUINN INC.

Makers of Reflection Series Software. HP terminal
emulation for PCs and Macintoshes.

Call (800) 872-2829 or circle 127.

WTW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING

A nationwide firm with extensive experience in HP and
multiplatform environments. Services include systems
integration, migrations and downsizing, project
management, application development and information
technology strategic planning.

Call (803) 699-5781 or circle 180.

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HP Introduces

Industrial Workstations

HP introduced its first PA-RISC-based
industrial workstation and real-time computer
systems specifically designed for factory floor
and control applications.

The new HP 9000 Models 745i and 7471
industrial workstations and HP 9000 model
742rt board computer systems are based on
HP’s 50-MHz implementation of the new
PA-RISC 7100 chip. Both the industrial
workstations and real-time computer systems
are targeted at the manufacturing, aerospace,
telecommunications and medical laboratory
industries.

The systems give users maximum
flexibility because they can be configured to
meet specific requirements such as ease of
standard
configurations, durable design and application
specific I/O capabilities for factory floor and
real-time control, including VMEbus,
[EEE.4888 and EISA.

The HP 9000 Models 745i and 747i
workstations run the HP-UX 9.0 operating

serviceability; rack-mount

system and are compatible with the entire
Series 700 workstation family.

Precision Visuals Upgrades
PV-WAVE Point & dick

Precision Visuals announced Version 2.0 of
PV-WAVE Point & Click, which features the
Database Visualizer for tabular data display
and a reduced price.

PV-WAVE Point & Click is an end-user
application featuring data import,
management, analysis and visualization
functionality driven by a GUI. PV-WAVE
Point & Click supports both Motif and
OpenLook windowing systems. The Database
Visualizer in Version 2.0 is a set of interactive
tools that lets you display a specified subset
of tabular data (i.e., row/column or record-
based data). This can be specified visually with
an icon interface to SQL commands. The
Database Visualizer enables analysts to explore
large or complex data sets in search of hidden
trends.

Several other new features include: Date/

time management and display, which allows
you to automatically collect, process and
display time-series data with flexible calendar
axes ranging from years to seconds; quick
actions, which automate a variety of complex
or repetitive tasks; and Encapsulated Postscript
Interchange (EPSI) output, which allows users
to integrate PV-WAVE Point & Click images
directly into desktop publishing products like
Framemaker or Interleaf.

The new price for the product is $2,495
for a single floating license.

PV-WAVE Point & Click supports
UNIX-based workstations from HP, Sun
Microsystems and DEC.

Contact Precision Visuals Inc., 6230 Lookout
Rd., Boulder, CO 80301; (303) 530-9000.
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NCR’s TOP END
Ported To HP 9000
NCR Corp. and Independence Technologies
announced the availability of NCR’s TOP
END transaction monitor of the HP 9000
computing systems. Independence
Technologies will make the TOP END
online transaction processing (OLTP)
software port available worldwide.

TOP END provides a standard-based
distributed management environment for

open systems. Its graphical-based, adminis—
tration system is paired with unique tools for
ease of administration and run-time
management.

TOP END offers open interfaces for
OLTP and provides commercial processing
features such as scaleable performance, high
availability, data integrity and two phase
commit coordination. It also offers security,
dynamic reconfiguration, administration tools
and distributed system support for the
transaction processing network.

Contact NCR, 1700 S. Patterson Blvd.,
Dayton, OH 45479; (513) 445-2696.
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Sherpa Corp. Presents
Sherpa/View
Sherpa Corp. announced Sherpa/View, a
document viewing and mark-up tool that is
tightly integrated with Sherpa’s product
information management system (Sherpa/
PIMS). Sherpa/View enables users to
comment on documents electronically,
eliminating serial, paper-based approval
processes.

The integration of Sherpa/View with
Sherpa/PIMS provides a solution to
manufacturers trying to manage electronic

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files. Sherpa/PIMS “electronic vault” and
workflow capabilities provide the mechanism
for cataloging, linking, accessing and routing
product information, while Sherpa/View
allows virtually any user to view the data from
low-cost PCs and workstations.
Sherpa/View runs under the MS
Windows 3.0 and 3.1 interface on PCs, and
under Motif on HP RISC-based
workstations. Price is $745 to $1,445 depend—
ing on options and platforms.
Contact Sherpa Corp., 611 River Oak
Pkwy., San Jose, CA 95134; (408) 433-0455.
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Backup Time Reduced

With Hi-Back/UNIX

HI-COMP enhanced HI-BACK/UNIX by
adding the ability to perform SPLIT backup
to up to four devices simultaneously. Data is
sorted automatically into equal quantites based
on file size before being written to the
specified devices concurrently. Individual files
are not spread over multiple devices.

Backup time may be considerably reduced
by utilizing surplus processing power and
writing to distributed devices of relatively low
capacity or write speed.

The release of SPLIT backup comple—
ments the release of RAW DISC backup,
which copies a complete disk partition, block-
by-block, to the backup media, performing
real-time data compression.

SPLIT backup also complements SERIAL
backup, where any number of similar devices,
mounted locally or remotely on the network,
may be written to consecutively.

Contact HI-COMP America, 419 Canyon
Ave., Ste. 215, Fort Collins, CO 80521-2670;
(303) 224-9700.

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SLM Introduces

TAG For HP 3000s

Straight Line Methodology Inc. (SLM)
released its Multi-Lingual Turbo Applications
Generator (TAG). SLM’s TAG/3000 offers

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an HP solution for generating application
source code in the language of your choice,
or for migrating from language to language.
.TAG/3000 generates Vplus forms,
Application Ready Buffers and Application
Source Code for on-line transaction
processing (OLTP), and on-line/off-line
reporting, from a database object, in the
languages of: C, SPL, SPLash!, COBOL,
PASCAL, FORTRAN and TRANSACT.
SLM’s TAG turbocharges your 3GLs and
allows the use of 4GL concepts and
techniques even on current 3GLs. SLM’s
TAG can accept data declarations from
IMAGE/3000, Dictionary/3000 or a
combination of Vplus/3000 and IMAGE/
3000.
Contact SLM Software Inc., 141 Edenvale
Rd., Rock Hill, SC 29730; (803) 328-9063.
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Net Change MRP Module

For MM/3000 Released

Dennis and Schwab Inc. (DSI) announced
that Net Change MRP modules designed as
complementary products to HP’s Materials
Management/3000 (MM/3000) system are
available.

The modules include the Data Collection
Interface (DCI), Barcode Tool Kits (BTK and
RF/BTK), and Procurement Requirements
Processing (PRP) software.

The software is implemented in COBOL
and is designed to run in the background and
without interruptions to any MM/3000 user.
The software provides a tightly coupled
Master Scheduling, Regenerative, Net
Change and What-If MRP capability,
completely integrated with the MM/3000
database, with no redundant processing
requirement such as cross-over programs.

Spread-sheet style screens are provided to
review and modify master production
schedules for groups of items, and histogram
inquiry displays provide “reasonableness”
reviews for weekly, monthly or quarterly
periods.

The MRP modules including COBOL

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problems. UNISPOOL offers solutions to problems associated with network
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model from $8,750.
Dennis and Schwab Inc., 17330 Newhope
St., Ste. A, Fountain Valley, CA 92708; (714)
241-4550.

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Online-BACKUP+/XL

Requires Zero Downtime
ORBIT Software enhanced its Online-
BACKUP+/XL package by providing zero
downtime online backup for HP 3000
systems running MPE/ix.

In the past, ORBIT offered online backup
capability for MPE V and MPE/iX systems
and, this feature has, on MPE/iX, required
about five minutes of downtime at the end
of the backup. Now, this downtime isn’t
required. Online-BACKUP+/XL eliminates
system downtime because of backup.
Contact ORBIT Software Inc., 319 Diablo
Rd., Ste. 218, Danville, CA 94526; (510)
837-4143.

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Information Resources
Upgrades Consort For HP 9000s
Information Resources Inc. introduced
Version 2.5 of CONSORT, a sort/merge
solution for high-volume data processing for
all of the HP 9000s.

CONSORT also: features a mainframe
language for selection and reporting;
interactive/batch programing with context
help and shell access; drop-in replacement for
the system” sort; C, COBOL and
FORTRAN language interfaces and data
types; unlimited binary, numeric and
character keys in fixed/floating position; fixed
or variable length records; unlimited number
of input files and records from any source; co-
routine architecture for user exits and minimal
I/O; and program and run-time management
of memory and disk workspace.

License fees for CONSORT on the HP
9000/700s start at $1,490.

Contact Information Resources Inc., 319
Decker Rd., M/S RR1, Craryville, NY
12521; (800) 333-SORT.

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Phasell Turns ClockWise

For HP 9000 Series 700/800
Phasell Software Corp. announced that
ClockWise 1.3, a multiuser work group
management application is available for the

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HP 9000 Series 800 and 700 workstations
running HP-UX 8.0 or higher. Clock Wise
combines group scheduling and calendar
technology with task delegation and tracking
to give managers more effective control and
improve communications within their
organizations.

ClockWise incorporates many of the same
features as personal information managers —
ToDo list, calendar, notes and address book
— and extends them to a group computing
environment.

The calendar serves as a group scheduler
that arranges meeting times and allocates
rooms, equipment and resources. The ToDo
list becomes part of a comprehensive task
management function that allows managers to
delegate tasks, enforce accountability,
encourage follow-up and track tasks to
completion.

A single concurrent user license is $279.
A license for five concurrent users is $759.
Contact PhaselI Software Corp., 444
Washington St., Ste. 407, Woburn, MA
01801; (617) 937-0256.

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Software Technologies Group
Unveils MAGRST For UNIX
Software Technologies Group announced
MAGRST for UNIX Release 2.0, a utility
to extract data from Prime Computer’s
MAGSAV-format archive tapes.

It maintains the original PRIMOS
directory structure saved on the tapes. Both
full and partial restores are supported,
providing the user with complete flexibility
when restoring files from the tape.

MAGRST for UNIX supports a variety
of file types including SAM, DAM and
Segmented Directories (both SAM and
DAM). The product converts Prime ASCII
files to conventional ASCII.

In addition to explicitly specifying which
files should or shouldn’t be translated,
MAGRST for UNIX supports two automatic
translation modes that can distinguish most
text files (programs source code, ASCII data
files, etc.) from binary data and perform the
conversion automatically.

MAGRST for UNIX is available on HP
9000, Sun SPARC, IBM RS/6000, Data
General AVION, Sequent and Prime EXL
systems.

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Contact Software Technologies Group Inc.,
P.O. Box 265, 1010 Lake St., Ste. 612, Oak
Park, IL 60301; (708) 386-2220.

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OCS Directs CHARGEBACK

To HP-UX

OCS announced CHARGEBACK-UX, a
resource accounting and cost allocation
system for HP-UX.

CHARGEBACK allows managers to
analyze and anticipate resource requirements.
CHARGEBACK also allows managers to
create accounts of users, similar to the chart
of accounts used in financial accounting
systems, and assign flexible price schedules for
a variety of resources. CHARGEBACK
supports networked HP-UX environments to
make statistics collection and reporting for
networked machines virtually transparent. It
collects and maintains usage data for all
networked machines and resources in the data
center including: CPU time, terminals, disk
storage, commands and printers. It also allows
you to define and generate custom reports.
Contact Operations Control Systems, 560 San

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Security Dynamics Delivers
ACE/Server For HP-UX

Security Dynamics Inc. (SDI) announced a
new version of its access control software for

TCP/IP client-server networks. ACE/Server
for HP-UX offers system managers a means
of positively identifying and authenticating
HP 9000 workstation clients on TCP/IP
networks, while providing a user-friendly and
convenient format for end users.
ACE/Server for HP-UX is used in
conjunction with SDI’s SecurID Card, a

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credit card-sized token that displays a
randomly generated, unpredictable access
code that automatically changes every 60
seconds. Users enter their password or
personal identification number (PIN) and the
current code displayed on the SecurID Card.
After the system verifies that both factors are
entered correctly, authorized users are granted
access to the system, while unauthorized users
are denied access. Prices begin at $5,000.
Contact Security Dynamics Inc., One Alewife
Center, Cambridge, MA 02140-2312; (617)
547-7820.
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Talaris Systems Introduces
3rd Wave In Laser Printing
Talaris Systems Inc. released Wings
Architecture for Intelligent Connectivity for
its family of advanced network laser printers.

The Wings Architecture for Intelligent
Connectivity brings together all of the
features found in departmental printers (high
speed print engines, large paper capacity with
advanced paper handling features, at least one
standard emulation and lower per user costs),
but adds multihost, multinetwork, multiap—
plication support using industry and open
systems standards. Enterprise printers are
different than network printers because of the
added capabilities.

It accepts multiple communications
protocols over Ethernet, including TCP/IP,
DECnet and EtherTalk, at the same time. It
supports all the applications in the enterprise
by providing up to nine emulations that can
be used in any combination, or that users can
use the best application for the task at hand.
Contact Talaris Systems Inc., 6059
Cornerstone Court West, P.O. Box 261580,
San Diego, CA 92196; (800) 934-3345.

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S.M. Gordon & Assoc. Offers
New Products For The HP 3000
S.M. Gordon & Associates released four new
products for the HP 3000: SIGNON,
EZQUICK, BACKMAN and a new version
of FYIMAIL.

SIGNON is a system manager tool that
allows you to take a snapshot of the current
signon environment and then reproduce it at
any time. When the system needs to be taken
down, you can record how users were signed
on and put them back once the system is up
and running. All sign on files are kept in an
encrypted format.

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EZ QUICK is designed as an add-on
product for QUICK from COGNOS Corp.
It gives QUICK programmers the ability to
work in a PC Windows-like environment on
an HP terminal, to select items from the
QDD dictionary and then to interactively
design the screen by using the cursor keys to
place and move the labels, data and text.
When screen design is finished, code
necessary for the screen to work under
QUICK is generated using a function key.

BACKMAN is a generic background job
manager, enabling you to place background
jobs into one job stream. BACKMAN
supports passing STDIN LIB=, PARM=,
INFO=, XL=, and a special RESTART
option that will tell BACKMAN to
automatically restart a process if it fails. You
can use XEQ files to dynamically load and
unload various background environments.

Version A.02.01 of FYIMAIL, the
electronic mail package, now supports the
ability to upload files from the PC directly
into mail being typed on the 3000. Users also
can define and create their own template files.

FYIMAIL version A.02.01 is priced at
$875. SIGNON is at $275. EZQUICK and
BACKMAN are available at an introductory
price of $450 and $400 respectively, regardless
of CPU size.

Contact $.M. Gordon & Associates, 1320
Brewster Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92801; (714)
533-6234.

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Cantata Adds Reports

To SPG Code Generator

Cantata Computer Corp. released Reports for
SPG — Source Program Generator. SPG is
a PC-based graphical programming
environment that generates COBOL source
code for the HP 3000, allowing programmers
to simplify the development of new
applications as well as the maintenance of
older COBOL applications. The Reports
module combined with the basic SPG Meta-
Engine is available as a standalone package as
well as an enhancement to version 2 of SPG’s
previously available Screen and File code
generation products.

SPG operates under Windows on a PC
and provides a GUI for the design and code
generation of screens, files and reports.
Procedures are provided to download existing
IMAGE database root files into an SPG
MetaDictionary repository allowing user data

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file attributes to be available for further design
modification at the click of a mouse. In
addition to IMAGE, KSAM and Sequential
files also are supported.

Contact Cantata Computer Corp., 165
Eighth St., Ste. 304, San Francisco, CA
94103: (800) 282-9520.

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AimTech Corp. Debuts
IconAuthor For OSF/Motif
AimTech Corp. announced its interactive
multimedia authoring tool, IconAuthor,
under the OSF/Motif X Window System
interface. AimTech also announced support
for the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations.

IconAuthor’s icon-based, visual program—
ming environment allows the non-program—
mer to develop interactive multimedia
applications that combine text, graphics,
animation, full-motion video and audio.
IconAuthor is used to create applications for
computer-based training, simulations, self-
service terminals, performance support
systems and desktop presentations.

IconAuthor on OSF/Motif also comes
equipped with Smart Text Editor, an object-
oriented text editor used to create dynamic
text; and IconAnimate, an animation editor
used to create animation scripts.

IconAuthor for OSF/Motif prices range
from $7,500 for one user to $75,000 for
unlimited users at one site.

Contact AimTech Corp., 20 Trafalgar
Square, Nashua, NH 03063-1973; (603) 883-
0220.

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HP Simplifies Computer-

Aided Process Management

HP introduced SynerVision for SoftBench, a
software tool that enables users to construct
computer-aided process-management
environments.

Once the process is defined, the process-
management environment provides real-time
communication and status reports that link
the process with the people who perform the
tasks and the software tools they use.

SynerVision consists of general-purpose
electronic templates, or process blueprints,
that can be programmed with information
that divides a process into a set of well-
defined tasks.

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involved, task priorities, and standards and
measurements to collect at each stage of the
process and collate into status reports.

Price is $3,950 for UNIX-based
workstations from HP and Sun Microsystems.

OMNIDEX Interface

Introduced To QUICK

Dynamic Information Systems Corp. (DISC)
developed a streamlined interface to add
OMNIDEX retrievals to any QUICK screen
that is shipping with its latest version of
OMNIDEX software for both classic and
Spectrum TurboIMAGE customers. The
interface will work with both OMNIDEX
keyword retrieval and the company’s sorted
sequential access product IMSAM, and
doesn’t require any changes to the dictionary
or Path and Find procedures.

The interface provides the ability to
perform simple or complex retrievals through
dialogue boxes overlayed on the QUICK
screen, or through instructions directly within
the program. Most screens can employ

OMNIDEX with a
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The interface is shipping with version 2.09
(classic) and 3.0 (Spectrum) OMNIDEX.
IMSAM-only customers will be charged $500
to $2,250.
Contact DISC, 5733 Central Ave., Boulder,
CO 80301; (303) 444-4000.

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MEC Releases WiziWord 2.0
For HP 9000 Workstations
Microsystems Engineering Corp. (MEC)
released WiziWord 2.0, a WYSIWYG word
processor, for the HP Apollo 9000 Series 700
workstations using the Motif interface,

simple 12-line

running under the HP-UX 8.0 operating
system.

WiziWord combines graphical word
processing with drawing and plotting
capabilities. Word processing features include
a tables editor, print/preview mode, powerful
macros, graphics integration, multicolumns,
thesaurus, and spell checker. An object-
oriented illustrator can be used to create new

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drawings or edit and annotate imported
graphics.

On workstations, WiziWord sells for $995
which includes all three modules (WP,
Drawing and Plotting). The PC version costs
$595. The Macintosh version costs $395.
Contact MEC, 2400 W. Hassel Rd., Ste. 390,
Hoffman Estates, IL 60195; (708) 882-0111.

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Cyborg Ships Client-Server
Version Of Solution Series
Cyborg Systems released a new version of
The Solution Series, its integrated human
resource management, payroll processing and
benefits administration system.

The Solution Series Version 8.0 now
incorporates client-server architecture to run
on standalone and networked IBM-
compatible microcomputers linked by Novell
NetWare. It also runs under Windows,
providing a graphical user interface and the
capability to transfer information between it
and spreadsheets, word processors and other
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ith Formation /2680 from Tymlabs, you can easily convert your 2680-based electronic forms to
print on any HP laser printer, including the new Laserfet IIlsi, and the high speed, high resolution
page printers that are on the way. And you can print your forms wherever it’s most convenient
— in your computer room, or on any of your departmental laser printers.

Create new electronic forms quickly. And easily.

Formation /2680 includes Formation Design, a Windows-based drawing tool that lets you design
a form in a fraction of the time it takes with HP’s IDSForm. Just upload the form to your HP 3000
system and compile it into a standard MPE environment file. A single file equation merges the
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Enhancements to The Solution Series
include flex benefits management capabilities
to provide program administrators with a full
suite of tools for implementation and
administration of flex benefits programs. They
include prototype enrollment forms, single
screen enrollment capabilities for benefits
choices, complete calculation and distribution
tracking of employee credits, sample letters for
employee communications and tracking of
flexible spending account claims and balances.

The Solution Series version 8.0 is priced
from $35,000, depending on CPU and
number of users.

Contact Cyborg Systems Inc., 2 North
Riverside Plaza, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL
60606; (312) 454-1865.

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WRQ Releases Reflection

For HP 95LX Palmtop Use
Walker, Richer & Quinn announced the
upcoming release of the Reflection
connectivity software, designed for the HP

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95LX palmtop computer. Reflection for the
Palmtop will allow the mobile business person
to connect with the host at home to read
electronic mail or to look at other host-based
information.

Reflection will supply terminal emulation
for applications on HP 3000, Digital VAX
and UNIX hosts. Reflection for the Palmtop
will incorporate many of the features of
WRQ?’s other Reflection products, such as a
scripting language and keyboard mapping. It
will offer enhanced modem dialing and screen
handling and will be streamlined to conserve
memory.

Reflection for the Palmtop will be
available in the first quarter of 1993.

Contact Walker, Richer & Quinn Inc., 2815
Eastlake Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98102;
(206) 726-7263.

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AG Communication Introduces
DIG, Action Tracker and DLS
AG Communication Systems introduced
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tration tools for HP Apollo workstation users:

DIG (Database Interface Generator)
automatically generates an interface between
a C application and an Oracle RDBMS by
using the definition of table and views from
the data dictionary.

Action Tracker documents, communicates
and tracks project actions and/or system
problems. User-defined data fields, routing
and life cycle states allow users to design
customized action reports to meet a broad
range of applications.

DLS is a document library system to help
HP Apollo workstation users with Interleaf
document administration. It allows users to
maintain a centralized library of documents
and easily apply configuration management
methods to Interleaf documents.

Contact AG Communication Systems, 2500
W. Utopia Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85027; (602)
582-7511.

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POSIX And ANSI Conformance
Checking: Flexelint 5.0

Gimpel Software added POSIX and ANSI
conformance checking to Version 5.0 of
FlexeLint. Use of non-POSIX and/or non-
ANSI features and functions are flagged,
suspicious but legitimate usage is reported,
and non-portable constructs are identified.

FlexeLint is a C source code analysis tool
and runs on any machine that supports the
C language. FlexeLint will analyze C
programs and report on bugs, glitches,
inconsistencies and redundancies. FlexeLint
looks across multiple modules and aids in
developing reliable programs, making
programs more maintainable, and in porting
programs to new machines and new operating
systems.

POSIX and ANSI checking is enabled
through the use of unencumbered POSIX
and ANSI header files that are included with
FlexeLint. FlexeLint can be used on
mainframes and workstations including
UNIX, HP-UX, IBM VM, VAX VMS
and Sun OS.

Contact Gimpel Software, 3207 Hogarth
Lane, ‘ Collégeville;-PA- 19426; (215)
584-4261.

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LINK Presents AlphaWindows
Terminal Solution

LINK Technologies released two new
Alphanumeric windowing solutions: the color
WT80 and the monochrome WT6
AlphaWindow terminals. LINK also
announced an alliance with JSB to equip users
with an integrated hardware and software
AlphaWindow solution.

LINK and JSB are offering AlphaWindow
Appraisal Kits (AWAKS), which include
LINK’s WT80 or WT6 AlphaWindows
terminals, bundled with a PC style keyboard,
mechanical mouse and JSB’s MultiView
Mascot software. The kits support five UNIX
operating system versions, including HP-UX,
and allow users to test drive AlphaWindows
hardware and software in their existing
application environment.

The WT80 and WT6 terminals provide
up to six simultaneous sessions running on
any host equipped with an AlphaWindows
compliant windowing manager. Both
terminals support input devices from
Microsoft, Logitech or Mouse Systems, as
well as a PC compatible parallel port for
printers or other peripherals.

JSB’s MultiView Mascot is a UNIX-based
program that gives you a Motif-style

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windowing environment on an Alpha-
Window terminal and provides an easy
migration path from character to Alpha-
Window-based terminals.

The WT80 is $999. The WT6 is $699.
For a limited time, the AWAKS kit, including
a single-user version of JSB’s MultiView
mascot software, a keyboard and mouse, will
be available with the WT80 or WT6 at no
additional cost.

Contact LINK Technologies, 46595 Landing
Parkway, Fremont, CA 94538; (510)
651-8000.

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TransEra Offers The HTBasic
DOS 386/486 Numeric Compiler

TransEra Corp. announced the latest addition
to its High Tech Basic product line, the
HTBasic DOS 386/486 Numeric Compiler.

The DOS Numeric Compiler helps any
HTBasic programmer produce faster running
numeric-intensive subprograms without
requiring any additional programming skills.
The Numeric Compiler produces code that
runs in the fast 386/486 processor 32-bit
protected mode and produces in-line math
code to fully utilize the 387/487 math
processor. In addition, the Numeric Compiler
also can generate EXE files that require only
the HTBasic DOS 386/486 Runtime Version
to execute.

The TransEra HTBasic DOS 386/486
Numeric Compiler, including the complete
DOS 386/486 Development and Runtime
versions, is now available for $1,325. For
current HTBasic users, the Numeric
Compiler is available as an upgrade from their
current DOS 386/486 Version for $450. The
Numeric Compiler requires Release 3.3 of
the DOS 386/486 Version of HTBasic.
Contact TransEra Corp., 3707 North Canyon
Road, Provo, UT 84604; (801) 224-6550.

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ACUCOBOL-85 Available

On COHERENT 4.0

Acucobol Inc. and the Mark Williams Co.
(MWC) announced the availability of
ACUCOBOL-85 for MWC’s COHERENT
Version 4.0 operating system.

The benefits of the COHERENT 4.0
system — full 32-bit implementation,
complete multiuser, multitasking ability, and
a low-cost UNIX-like development platform
— are combined with those of the
ACUCOBOL-85 compiler, including
windowing capabilities, a user replaceable file
system and a built-in source code debugger.

ACUCOBOL-85 is available for shipment
with COHERENT 4.0.
Contact Acucobol Inc., 7950 Silverton Ave.,
Ste. 201, San Diego, CA 92126; (619)
689-7220.
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Mod-Tap Introduces

New UTP System

Mod-Tap introduced a new unshielded
twisted-pair (UTP) system that allows
multivendor equipment to interoperate at
speeds up to 100 MB/sec.

The System 100 consists of the Domino
Series Wallplates, the Domino Series Cross
Connects, the Mod-Tap Distribution Frames,
and Mod-Tap Cable Management System
(CMS) centralized management and control.

Each component complies to ANSI, EIA/
TIA, UL an IEEE standards.

Price ranges from $20,000 to $100,000.
Contact Mod-Tap, 285 Ayer Rd., P.O. Box
706, Harvard, MA 01451; (508) 772-5630.

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Proactive Systems Enhances
FLEXIBASE/SQL

Proactive Systems enhanced its SQL database
management tool with the release of a new
version of FLEXIBASE/SQL.

It now includes an optional front-end
using the MS-Windows GUI operating in
client-server mode against HP 3000 databases.
Contact Proactive Systems, Four Main St.,
Los Altos, CA 94022; (415) 949-9100.

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Interactive Software Releases
UDMS Version 4.0 C

Interactive Software Systems Inc. (ISSI)
announced UDMS Version 4.0 C that offers
users an easier, intuitive end-user interface,
increased performance and full Asian (Kanji)
language support.

UDMS enables “relational joining” of up
to 32 files from such diverse databases as
TurboIMAGE, INGRES and KSAM for
HP users.

This enhanced Report design flow shows
users their reports as they construct them.

UDMS/Kanji includes Kanji docu-
mentation, Kanji help and error messages,
Kanji menus, full read and write and local
sales and support.

Price ranges from $4,500 and $100,000
depending on system configuration.
Contact ISSI, 7175 W. Jefferson Ave.,
Denver, CO 80235; (800) 944-UDMS.

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105. Bering Industries, Inc. ......<...:.- 19
171 Black River Computers .......... oe
184 Bradmark Technologies,

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294 Camintonn Corporation ......... 69
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101 Computech Systems Corp. ...... 58
296 Computer Associates ............... 45
167 Computer Solutions, Inc. ........ 85
112 Contemporary Cybernetics

PSO alps caictare ete cee Paes tnaaeaurveies 13
164 Creative Systems ............ INSERT
240 Dataram Corporation .............. 15
|g eld Bo jot ce atanpe Omens haa Als 90
459 Disk Emulation Systems, Inc. ..62
113. Dynamic Information

mysbeine Clon: acted. sithdvclence 34-35
TTS Dialers Gory, 5s vecnneg idiedonett 4
115 Equinox Systems, Inc......... 66-67
119 Herstal Automation, Ltd. ........ 51
173 Herstal Automation, Ltd. ........ 73
199 Hewlett-Packard/ Worldwide

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474 Hooleon Corporation ............. 88
244 HyPoint Technology .............. 64

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181 Infotek Systems, Inc. ....2....:0s0: 43
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Microsoft has
been busy mus-
tering a coali-

_ tion of forces
behind its Windows NT operating sys-
tem. Having already firmed up plans
to produce NT for the Intel, DEC
Alpha and MIPS processor families — and
with parallel system vendor Sequent
showing off NT on its Symmetry server
— it’s obvious that Microsoft wants to
make the big splash with this puppy.
So where’s HP?

The Silent Treatment

Here we are, mere months from its re-
lease, and HP still isn’t saying what
it’s going to do? At INTEREX, HP did
let slip that it is “exploring” the use of
NT on PA-RISC. I’m sure the purpose
of the “leak” was to reassure us that HP
isn’t deaf and blind to Microsoft’s ploy,
but the company is still dumb on NT’s
future.

We tried to get HP to open up, but
it just doesn’t want to talk about NT yet.
All we could get from HP’s CEO Lew
Platt was the assurance that “Nothing
happening now — with Digital or any-
body else — makes HP the odd man out.
Bill Gates wants NT running absolutely
everywhere, and everyone is looking for
volume sales.”

Translated into plain Anglais, that
means that NT isn’t exclusive to any-
body, and that HP can ink a deal with
Microsoft any time it wants. The incen-
tive for a deal is a place at the trough if
it looks like there’s enough money to be
made. This is not what you'd call a ring-
ing endorsement.

I expect silence from IBM, which
wants no part of either Microsoft or NT.

And Another Thing ...

Sun is also reticent about NT, but they’ve
never been a big customer of Microsoft’s
like HP has. Is HP getting sick of follow-
ing Microsoft around like a dog? That
could be. NT might just be a flop. Then
again, HP’s bigger worry might be that
NT will succeed too well.

Is UNIX Dead?

Microsoft makes no bones about trying
to position NT as its UNIX-killer. If
it just wanted to continue hogging
the Intel-dominated desktop, it wouldn’t
have to court and port so aggressively.
Microsoft is aiming squarely at the server
market with NT, and that can’t be
too reassuring to HP, which makes more
money from UNIX than any other ven-
dor, and is also eye-balling that market
covetously.

HP — either first or second in the
UNIX market, depending on whether
you’re counting beans or units shipped
— wants to sell more PA-RISC hardware,
but it doesn’t want to cannibalize its sales
of HP-UX systems. If NT on PA-RISC
meant brand-new sales in non-UNIX
(read PC) markets, HP might get those
volume sales that Mr. Platt is looking for.
The risk is that NT might really work,
and start eating into UNIX server sales.
HP counts on that quasi-proprietary mar-
ket to generate lots of software and ser-
vices dollars, and no amount of hardware
volume will make up for its loss.

So what’s HP supposed to do? If it
gets on the NT bandwagon, it gives NT
a bigger boost out of the chute. If HP falls
off the wagon, it might lose hardware
sales and keep its UNIX revenues up, or
it might just lose hardware sales.

It’s not so simple a question as “Is
UNIX dead?2”, because UNIX is un-
doubtedly going to be around for a while
as a transaction-processing and database-
serving platform. The economics of
downsizing and the impact of the Open

To NT, Or Not NT?

Software Foundation’s Distributed Com-
puting Environment (OSF/DCE) will see
to that. What’s at stake are the desktop
and workgroup server markets.
Although the UNIX mongers have
tried to wage war at the low end of the
workstation market, their strikes are be-
ing launched from cratered airfields.
Windows already has staved off repeated
incursions into PC land, including tries
by at least four new low-end UNIX
boxes in the last year. Attempts to posi-
tion UNIX as a PC workgroup server
platform also have flopped. For that mat-
ter, attempts to position anything other
than Novell’s NetWare as a server plat-
form have been less than stellar successes.

Under Cover Of NetWare

In a twisted way, the success of Novell
may be making HP think that it can get
away with a divide and conquer strategy.
Knowing that NetWare doesn’t scale
well up into UNIX territory, HP can
view it as a demilitarized zone between
PC and UNIX territories. Before it can
lay claim to any major server market
share, NT will be forced to fight off
NetWare. Without the backing of HP
or IBM, doing that will be much more
difficult.

Given that HP has been working with
Novell to put Native NetWare onto PA-
RISC, HP may feel that it’s already got
an entry point into the workgroup server
market, and that NT will be an expen-
sive distraction that won’t buy it any
more market share.

Whatever its strategy, I hope HP gets
around to talking about it soon. More
silence just means more confusion, and
it would be nice to know what HP’s
game plan is. The time for contempla-
tive navel-gazing is long gone. We
deserve a decision. =

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